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Technical Preparation and Project Support.

Manufacturing a transformer tank starts with turning the customer's design into something the shop floor can build.

Manufacturability Review Manufacturing Documentation Order Status
Hands finishing the edge of a machined steel block held in a vice
Before the first cut

From customer drawing to shop floor documentation

The starting point is always the drawing the customer supplies. Our work begins where that design has to become a sequence of cuts, machined faces, welds and checks.

Customer drawings are reviewed for manufacturability before production begins, and questions are raised with the customer while they are still cheap to answer; a detail clarified on paper costs far less than the same detail found on a welded assembly.

Manufacturing documentation is prepared so that cutting, machining, welding and inspection all work from the same information. Weld preparation, welding sequence and inspection points are planned together rather than decided station by station.

Through production, order status is communicated to the customer, and changes are handled through the same documented route rather than informally.

  • Manufacturability review of the drawings supplied with the order
  • Manufacturing documentation shared across cutting, machining, welding and inspection
  • Order status and change communication through production
A CNC cutting machine positioned over steel plate on a slatted cutting table
Downstream

What preparation hands to production

Preparation is finished when every station has what it needs, not when the drawing has been read.

The grade, certificate type or supplier a customer specifies with the order is carried into material receipt, so that the plate staged for cutting is the plate the order asked for.

Weld preparation decided on paper reaches the cutting stage as an edge shaped for the weld that follows, which is why welding receives parts that fit rather than parts that have to be persuaded into place.

Welding sequence and inspection points are planned before the first tack rather than decided station by station, because a tank that distorts during welding will not seat its covers and flanges correctly.

Next in the flow

Where preparation
lands.

The documentation prepared here is read on the production line and in the machine shop. Both are described on their own pages.

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Production Processes

Six stages carry the plate from intake through cutting, forming, welding, surface preparation and coating to a packed product.

Production processes

CNC Machining

Flanges, covers, sealing surfaces and connection details are machined in-house from the same documentation.

CNC machining