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DesignSheet Metal Design Services

Sheet Metal Design Services

Sheet Metal Designs Crafted for
Precision and Manufacturing Efficiency


Tesla Mechanical Designs excels in providing premier Sheet Metal Design Services, addressing the diverse needs of sheet metal contractors, fabricators, and engineering firms across various industries. Whether you operate in electronics, healthcare, automotive, or any other sector, our services aim to minimize material wastage, shorten product timelines, and deliver top-notch quality. Adhering to DFM guidelines and industry standards like ASME, ANSI, and TEMA, we ensure swift design approvals for sheet metal components, emphasizing cost-effective, assembly-friendly, and production-efficient designs. Streamline your time to market with our expertise.


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What is Sheet Metal
Services?

Sheet metal encompasses metals ranging from 0.5 to 6 millimeters in thickness, shaped from flat pieces of materials like aluminum, steel, and Galvanized Iron. As a Sheet Metal Design Company, we specialize in crafting modern and streamlined designs for sheet metal components. From consumer goods like file cabinets to industrial products like automobile bodies, sheet metals play a crucial role as the backbone of modern industry.


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Why is Sheet Metal Designing required?

Opting for custom sheet metal design is the optimal choice for achieving top-notch quality, adaptability, and durability. Tailored to meet your specific needs, customized designs ensure a longer lifespan, addressing the intended uses and enhancing resistance to substances, temperatures, and forces encountered in your processes. How is this achieved, you may wonder?


Strength and Durability

Sheet metal boasts strength and durability, surpassing plastic in handling higher pressure and heat. During design, the material can be tailored to meet specific requirements. Whether opting for aluminum, stainless steel, or surface-treated steel, you can ensure resistance to pressure, corrosion, and wear and tear in your sheet metal components.

Cost Effective

Deliberate consideration of material, thickness, manufacturing processes, and associated costs, coupled with continuous optimization, empowers manufacturers to elevate the cost-effectiveness of sheet metal fabrication. This approach leads to competitive pricing and enhanced profitability. Consistent evaluations of manufacturing processes and costs are pivotal for sustained efficiency enhancements.

Sustainability

Opting for sheet metal over plastic is a sustainable choice, as metal is inherently eco-friendly. Being a natural resource with strategic economic and environmental value, sheet metals from parts are recyclable, allowing for the creation of new parts indefinitely, in contrast to plastic.

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Industries we serve

Agriculture

In the agriculture and farming industries, contemporary tools need to endure diverse weather conditions and operational challenges. Sheet metal emerges as an ideal choice, providing strength, durability, and cost-effectiveness for the production of agricultural tools. Whether used indoors or outdoors, sheet metal ensures robust, high-quality construction. Additionally, its versatility allows for customization, enabling the incorporation of specific features such as perforations tailored to precise size and shape requirements, even during the design process.

Automotive

In the automotive industry, sheet metal finds extensive application in crafting diverse automobile components. Due to its affordability and ease of shaping, steel stands out as the predominant material, offering an exceptional strength-to-weight ratio. Steel is frequently employed in the construction of automobile structures, forming the chassis that supports the vehicle's body and acts as its foundational framework. Individuals often introduce additional components for customization, reinforcing and enhancing the original fabrication's durability.

Electrical and electronic

Sheet metal serves as the primary material for crafting enclosures in electronic devices and electrical appliances. The versatility of materials like steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and copper, along with various finishes and coatings, ensures the durability of your sheet metal parts, making this method ideal. In the electronic and electrical industry, sheet metal finds numerous applications, efficiently protecting delicate electrical and electronic equipment such as gearboxes with enclosures. Water-resistant and non-corrosive sheet metals are utilized for fabricating brackets and cable connectors.

Healthcare

In the healthcare sector, sheet metal plays a vital role in producing diagnostic and medical equipment. Stainless steel stands out as the preferred metal due to its outstanding strength, corrosion resistance, and rust-proof qualities, making it well-suited for hygienic environments. While surgical tools are a prevalent application of sheet metal, custom sheet metal fabrication extends to crafting diverse equipment like customized hospital beds, intricate surgical instruments, sterilization cases for orthopedics, physical therapy apparatus, and custom medical carts for various medical disciplines (cardiology, neurology, ophthalmology, etc.)





Our Process

1

Define design solutions and specifications

We thoroughly comprehend your sheet metal design needs, considering factors like the product's weight, sheet thickness, size constraints, etc. This allows us to identify design parameters and specifications. From the outset, we integrate Design for Manufacturability (DFM) standards to prevent rework. Adhering to various standards such as ASME, ANSI, TEMA, etc., our approach ensures precision in sheet metal design.

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Design for Manufacturability (DFM)

Our engineers use a Design for Manufacturability (DFM) strategy to ascertain precise dimensions for sheet metal, including corner reliefs, bend angles, and radii, ensuring quality and manufacturability. Simultaneously, we conduct thorough calculative analyses to achieve the optimal design. If additional information is needed, we promptly raise Request for Information (RFI) to ensure a comprehensive understanding of your requirements.

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3D Modeling and 2D Drawings

We proceed to generate a comprehensive 3D model, incorporating all design details. Maintaining transparent communication with you at every stage ensures efficiency and prevents delays. We diligently incorporate your feedback to modify the model, subsequently extracting precise 2D drawings of the sheet metal component

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Approval and Dispatch

We conduct two thorough quality checks to ensure the complete integration of all your inputs before delivering the final project to you. After confirming the quality of the deliverables, you receive the final model in its native file type and .step format, accompanied by drawings in PDF and any other necessary formats.






Sheet Metal Parts that are widely used

  1. Enclosures

    We design sheet metal enclosures for diverse products, ranging from electrical appliances such as water coolers, EV chargers, and refrigerators to electronic components like PCB circuits, switches, and relays, as well as industrial machines like CNC machines, and more.

  2. Frames

    Our specially crafted frames provide reliable support for your components, complementing how our design services bolster your business. These frames, whether serving as base or internal structures, cater to various applications, including machines, appliances like refrigerators, water coolers, microwaves, washing machines, automobiles, and structures across diverse industries.

  3. Cabinets

    Whether it's a kitchen cabinet, office cubicle, or a machine cover you need, we've got you covered. From machine cabinets, storage and warehouse shelves, to cabinets for network routers, switches, servers, batteries, and covers for food and pharmaceutical machinery, we design a diverse range of cabinets to meet your specific requirements!

  4. Mounting structures

    We assist in securely mounting your machines with our designed structures. Whether it's mounting plates, brackets, or flanges for products like antennas, TVs, projectors, street lights, power drives, hard drives, or complex installations for flight deck simulators used in airplanes, we've got your mounting needs covered!




FAQ - Sheet Metal Services



  • 1. DO WE PROVIDE FLAT PATTERN AND MANUFACTURING DRAWINGS?
  • 2. WHAT ARE THE MOST COMMONLY USED METALS?
  • 3. WHAT ARE THE DELIVERABLES OF OUR SHEET METAL SERVICES?
  • 4. HOW DO YOU MAKE SURE THAT YOUR DESIGN IS ACCORDING TO DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING (DFM)?
  • 5. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SHEET METAL FABRICATION AND MACHINING?

Do we provide flat pattern and manufacturing drawings?

Certainly, our drawing package is comprehensive, encompassing all essential detailed drawings. This includes flat pattern drawings for sheet metal components and thorough manufacturing drawings with bend instructions when necessary.

What are the most commonly used metals?

Commonly used materials comprise steel, aluminum, stainless steel, copper, and brass, each possessing distinct properties tailored to various applications.

What are the deliverables of our Sheet Metal Services?

Our Sheet Metal Services deliver 3D models for visualization and 2D drawings, encompassing Flat Pattern drawings, manufacturing drawings, and bend instruction drawings.

How do you make sure that your design is according to Design for Manufacturing (DFM)?

Through meticulous examination of each bend's feasibility and the development of precise bend instruction designs, we ensure alignment with your manufacturer's tooling capabilities, meeting Design for Manufacturing standards.

What is the difference between sheet metal fabrication and machining?

Sheet metal fabrication entails shaping and assembling sheet metal, while machining typically involves material removal to create a part. Sheet metal fabrication excels in crafting intricate shapes.

1Do we provide flat pattern and manufacturing drawings?

Certainly, our drawing package is comprehensive, encompassing all essential detailed drawings. This includes flat pattern drawings for sheet metal components and thorough manufacturing drawings with bend instructions when necessary.

2 What are the most commonly used metals?

Commonly used materials comprise steel, aluminum, stainless steel, copper, and brass, each possessing distinct properties tailored to various applications.

3What are the deliverables of our Sheet Metal Services?

Our Sheet Metal Services deliver 3D models for visualization and 2D drawings, encompassing Flat Pattern drawings, manufacturing drawings, and bend instruction drawings.

4 How do you make sure that your design is according to Design for Manufacturing (DFM)?

Through meticulous examination of each bend's feasibility and the development of precise bend instruction designs, we ensure alignment with your manufacturer's tooling capabilities, meeting Design for Manufacturing standards.

5What is the difference between sheet metal fabrication and machining?

Sheet metal fabrication entails shaping and assembling sheet metal, while machining typically involves material removal to create a part. Sheet metal fabrication excels in crafting intricate shapes.