Metal Fabrication

Products

Short Run Pro has developed our Pro Quote software to assist in the many variations of brackets available in the world. This does not mean metal brackets are all we produce. Short Run Pro can assist you in design and fabrication of any steel fabricated part. We make many different forms of steel fabrications and we specialize in short to medium production runs, prototypes and first run samples. We can work from sample parts, basic sketches, prints and engineering specifications. We also offer our clients design and drawing assistance.

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Short Run Pro custom fabrications developed by advanced equipment & processes

Here is some of the equipment that we use to make your products:

Amada Astro Robotic Forming Cell

The robot forms the part to a program developed offline. Parts are precisely positioned for forming which eliminates the variability of manual part manipulation. The formed features of some parts do not allow processing through this machine. Principally it is used for higher volume runs.

Amada Vipros Turret Press Line

Material is stored in the tower on the right and presented to the press for blanking parts. After punching, the punched sheet is then offloaded on the other side of the press automatically. The production program runs sheets automatically until the entire production run is complete. The turret press uses a sequenced program of punch and die shapes to create the desired blank. The turret holds 78 unique tools that can be rotated 360 degrees to orient the punch correctly over the sheet. The sheet is manipulated across a 50” x 120” table by material holders to present the sheet, at the correct location, to the punch and die set. The machine hits 300 times per minute. It sounds like a sewing machine when it’s running. It’s great for high volume runs and parts with a lot of holes. The laser makes about 1 hole per second. The turret makes 4 holes per second. So for hole intensive runs, we prefer to punch the part.

The machine is limited to 10 GA material so anything heavier goes on the laser. Unique hole shapes and large radii are also best done on the laser because there is no tooling cost.

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