When you need precision-engineered sheet metal fabrications large or small, Marlin Steel is your go-to resource. Our award-winning team of engineers can custom-design the best sheet metal form for your specific application, from heavy-duty materials handling baskets and shelving, to small HDD casings and hangers.

Each sheet metal form is engineered to exacting standards and manufactured with incredibly precise automated equipment so that every one of your custom metal forms meets your production tolerances.

Benefits of Using an Optimized Sheet Metal Design

Why is it important to use the right materials and to test the design before tooling for manufacture?

The benefits of careful design optimization include:

• Improved Cost to Useful Life Ratio. A well-optimized design will give you the best bang for your buck possible by making sure that the sheet metal form you order lasts for a long time without costing you too much. Using the wrong material can cause a custom metal form to wear out quickly. When your parts last for years or decades rather than months, you save money on constant re-orders.
• Better Performance. Sometimes, an existing design could be greatly improved with just a few minor tweaks. For example, adding a removable side panel to materials handling basket can make unloading materials faster, saving on labor. Adding more supports to a shelf design can increase its ability to handle heavy loads.
• Faster Delivery. By testing metal fabrication designs virtually, you can be spared the lengthy and expensive process of building, shipping, and testing multiple physical prototypes. If a design doesn’t pass the Autodesk simulation, it goes back to the drawing board to be reworked in a way that addresses the cause of the failure. This way, you know you’ll be getting a custom metal form that will meet or exceed your needs the first time, not after months and months of painstakingly slow tests.

Get a precision manufactured sheet metal piece that will work right the first time from Marlin Steel today!