A Devon CNC manufacturing company contacted us with a requirement to produce some prototype aluminium boxes, 1.5 thick and in two different sizes. The customer gave us the drawings (DFX files) so we could take a closer look at the job. We priced the work and gave the customer a quote based on a unit price for 12 with a future order of 200 per year if the job was successful.
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The customer confirmed the order and due to the company’s procedures and certificate of conformity requirements we set this up on our ISO9001 system. A purchase order was given to the steel supplier and the job was placed on our production schedule. We have a dedicated member of staff that is qualified to carry out the welding on aluminium products so he was given this production job.
The materials used were 1.5mm aluminium which was cut to size on our guillotine and then press braked and folded to shape. Our qualified welder was then required to weld the sides. On completion the customer came to check the finished boxes and was very pleased with the product. We padded the boxes and within a week we were informed that an order of 190 will be placed over the next year.
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