Closing the Loop with CAD on Metal Fabrication

In today's competitive market, sheet metal fabricators' efforts are geared towards achieving collaboration between technology, people, processes and supply chains at all levels. Fabricators try to find the close circle between each stage from the initial CAD design draft through to the fabrication process and back to the design.

The closed loop for sheet metal fabricators is a very holistic concept, especially when designers try to adopt a coherent fabrication process right from the design.

Design is important for the final product

In order to obtain the highest quality final product, fabricators are looking for some valuable propositions embedded in 2D design and 3D CAD design. Some of these include:

1. The initial design draft with design standards according to the target market of the manufacturer

2. Conceptual design

3. Refined final design to achieve functional prototype

4. Short term manufacturing process

5. Prepare a supply chain

In order to achieve the profitability of the finished sheet metal products, it is more than necessary to implement the steps mentioned above. However, the initial steps begin with the creation of an accurate CAD for sheet metal components and components.

Maintain quality checks from the start of the design avoiding last minute changes. Early quality checks basically ensure that the conceptual design and draft meet all product requirements. CAD drafting together with nesting drawings provides comprehensive manufacturing information and avoids costly mistakes and keeps builders from mistakes.

Preparation of CAD

Once a CAD draft has been formed accurately, it allows the fabricator to understand the purpose of each design element. In addition, the manufacturer can optimize the total fabrication time and future modification requirements made easier because of the CAD design.

Flat patterns, cuts, arches, pattern sections and more. It can easily be built into existing CAD models before the product is actually produced. With such a high volume of fabrication on the assembly line, the smallest change in the CAD draft will affect the entire production line output, and in such a scenario, this feature works to the benefit of the sheet metal fabricator.

Conclusion

From CAD drafting, design, nesting drawings, manufacturing aids, and finally receiving feedback from customers, CAD thus forms a closed loop system. Duta Laserindo Metal has always used CAD in the design process to add value to each step by accepting input from the previously upgraded stage and ultimately delivering better product output with purpose-built capacity.