MCB Smide & Maskin is a contract sheet metal fabricator producing enclosures, cabinets, chassis, panels, brackets, ducting and welded assemblies for electronics, machine building, food equipment, ventilation, architectural and transport customers. Capability covers laser cutting and punching, CNC press brake forming, rolling, welding in steel, stainless and aluminum, hardware insertion, machining of fabricated parts, assembly and finishing including powder coating, plating, graining and passivation. We work from prototype through to repeat production, and we review every new part for manufacturability before quoting, since the great majority of fabrication problems originate in the design rather than in the shop.

The design issues are consistent and easily fixed early: insufficient bend relief causing tearing at flange corners, flanges too short to form against the tooling, holes placed too close to a bend line and distorting during forming, tolerance stacks that no realistic forming process can meet, and welded assemblies specified without accounting for heat distortion. MCB Smide & Maskin raises each of these at quotation with a suggested alternative rather than quoting as drawn and dealing with it later. Forming accuracy also depends on allowing correctly for springback, which differs by alloy and temper even at identical thickness, so we form test pieces when working with an unfamiliar material rather than assuming.