Contract Manufacturing Support

SECG’s contract manufacturing support services are designed to provide engineering assistance to contract fabricators and manufacturers regarding their specific customer projects or jobs. Contact manufacturers have a wide customer base and in some instances the projects their customers bring to them may not be as detailed as it needs to be or the design may not take into account specific manufacturing constraints. That is where SECG can help. SECG can either work directly with the contract manufacturer or the end customer to vet the design, detail the design by generating engineering prints, or develop the design for common fabrication practices such as sheet metal, fabrication, and castings. SECG has worked with many contract manufacturing companies to lend direct engineering assistance to their customers to ensure the design is manufacturing ready, while also meeting the functional design requirements.





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Services

  • SHEET METAL DESIGN
  • STAMPING DESIGN
  • FLAT PATTERN DEVELOPMENT
  • 1:1 DXF AND DWG GENERATION
  • CASTING DESIGN
  • CASTING CORE DESIGN
  • FIXTURING
  • FABRICATIONS AND WELDMENTS
  • WELD SIZING AND DETAIL



Concept Development

In some instances contract manufacturing companies are approached by their customers with only a concept, while in other instances they are provided an existing product that is to be reverse engineered and redesigned. From a napkin sketch to a hand drafted print, SECG can take the concept sketches and create a 3D model in the preferred CAD package (see Design Engineering Services for a list of current CAD packages). If the job entails reverse engineering an existing product then SECG can assist with obtaining material properties and geometrical dimensions using coordinate measurement machine (CMM) methods.