- Over four decades of experience
- Latest equipment
- Specialization in light-gauge sheet metal fabrication for:
- Carbon steel
- Stainless steel
- Aluminum
- Estes can process:
- Plate up to 0.375″ thick
- Bar and tube stock
- Other types and alloys as needed by our customers
- Decreased production time
- Up to 10x faster than traditional MIG welding
- Up to 40x faster than traditional TIG welding
- Results in cost saving due to minimal post-weld grinding or finishing
Estes Accelerator – Product Development & Prototyping
- Dedicated, state-of-the-art equipment
- Latest programming software
- Experienced project mangers and engineers run the entire operation
- Results in reduced product development time and increases speed to market
- Collaboration with customers during product development cycle:
- Product design
- Rapid prototyping
- Manufacturing
- Serve a a resource to our customers’ design staffs
- Help to improve speed to market
- Use DFMA (Design for Manufacturability and Assembly) principles throughout the development process
- Efficient manufacturing with maintained aesthetics and functionality
- We understand that OEMs want a product produced at a competitive price
- We employ value engineering with the goal of:
- Reducing the manufacturing costs
- Simplifying assembly (DFMA)
- We have years of experience with Kanban and JIT inventory systems
- Formulation of stocking levels using
- Customer’s forecast
- Customer’s lead-time requirements
- Estes’ internal capacity levels
- Results in product being ready at the precise time it is needed by the customer