Estes engineers bring years of sheet metal fabricating experience to bear on even the most complex problems. With the ability to anticipate and resolve manufacturing challenges even before the process is begun, we insure the development of products that can be manufactured easily and cost-effectively. And because of our machines' advanced processing capabilities, we can combine multiple components of an assembly into one complex part.
During the product development cycle, Estes collaborates with customers from product designing to rapid prototyping to manufacturing. During the initial phases of development, Estes designers serve as a resource to our client's own design staffs, which is especially critical to our clients who have been forced to downsize their own product development operations. By providing design and engineering services to our clients, we can help to improve speed to market.
But we also provide manufacturing expertise, helping designers translate ideas from the drawing board to the assembly line. By applying DFMA principles throughout the development process, we can ensure that a product can be manufactured efficiently while maintaining its aesthetic and functional purposes.
Our expertise can also help OEMs with their existing products. Using a process known as value engineering, our team evaluates a customer's product looking for ways to reduce manufacturing costs and to simplify assembly (DFMA). Value engineering delivers parts at a lower cost that are easier to assemble.
