Since early 2018, Estes Express Prototyping has been working in close collaboration with Florence Corporation, a mailbox supplier. Recently, our team interviewed Mike Molt, Florence’s Design Engineering Manager, to learn more about its experience working with Estes. Below are our findings from the interview. Florence Corporation Benefits from Estes’ Cutting Edge Technology and Fast…
Purdue MEP helps Estes retain business and plan for the future It is important for every business to design and implement a business continuity plan to outline the essential functions of a business, identify which systems and processes must be sustained, and explain how to maintain the processes. This plan takes into account any possible…
Estes Philosophy: State-of-the-Art Technology At Estes Design and Manufacturing, we’ve invested in the highest-quality technology available for our customers’ metal fabrication needs. Our philosophy is to profitably produce fabricated metal products with a level of service and quality preferred by the customer. The philosophy has four main areas of focus: Creative, Innovative Thinking People of…
At Estes Design and Manufacturing, we understand that the foundation of a business is what propels it forward or leads it astray. Our leaders have spent years thoughtfully making decisions that uphold our core philosophy. The Estes philosophy defines who we are, and through our latest blog series, we are sharing how each pillar…
Laser welding isn’t exactly new. After all, it’s been used in automotive manufacturing for many years. Outside of the auto plant, however, laser welding (and its potential for savings) is less familiar. When parts made of thin-gauge sheet metal need nice-looking welds, lasers don’t immediately come to mind; labor-intensive TIG or MIG welding, grinding and…
Orthopedic Design & Technology (ODT) recently featured Estes Medical Design, a division of Estes Design and Manufacturing, in an article titled, “New Technologies Reshape Orthopedic Design.” The story highlights that within the medical device industry, there is an increasing urgency for products with high quality, durability, and intuitive ease of use for practitioners. The design…
“Research suggests that manufacturers spend 30% to 50% of their time fixing errors and almost 24% of those errors are related to manufacturability,” according to Kashyap Vyas in Machine Design. That’s a lot of wasted material, time and money due to mistakes. The good news is by following principles of design for manufacturing (DFM) and…
Image: Customer CC BY-SA 3.0 Nick Youngson / Alpha Stock Images For Estes Design and Manufacturing, Everything Starts and Stops with the Customer. Which is why at Estes we are always looking for new ways to bring value to those we serve. One way we recently did that was by realigning our processes to streamline production. However, we know…
By providing 3D-laser welding capabilities in the sheet metal welding industry, Estes Design and Manufacturing is able to weld products that require minimal post-weld grinding or finishing, resulting in labor and material cost savings for its clients. 3D laser welding uses concentrated light energy to fuse metal parts into a very precise joint that is…
When you hear about lean manufacturing (or, simply, “lean”) you might think of high-volume production lines and machines stamping out the same parts over and over all day. A prototype shop, where small batches or even single parts are the norm, seems at odds with this vision of manufacturing. Actually, it’s an excellent example of…