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I have a small UK Based Sub-contract Engineering Business that carries out Design, Machining & Fabrication to various industries including Nuclear. We currently have 50 employees and our current ERP system is now not suitable for our needs. So we are looking for a new system that can carry...
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We are manufacturing a fabricated frame to a customers supplied drawing and they are now highlighting that the holes should be put in to machined tolerances rather fabrication tolerances as we had assumed and priced.
The holes themselves don't have specific machining symbols associated to...
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I am wondering if anyone has an example of a Synergic WPQR & WPS that they don't mind sharing?
A problem has arisen where we have submitted Mig/Mag WPQR & WPS for a job and the client has now seen that they were done by a synergic welding machine and because they don't like automated...
I'm looking for some help with selecting the correct riveting procedure for a project I'm working on.
We are making some Stillages from 2.5mm Galvanised Steel to hold Scaffold Metal pipes. The stillages are approximately 3m long by 0.8m x 0.8m in size and i have attached a picture of an end of...
Ok now that I've got your attention I'm looking for some help with selecting the correct riveting procedure for a project I'm working on.
We are making some Stillages from 2.5mm Galvanised Steel to hold Scaffold Metal pipes. The stillages are approximately 3m long by 0.8m x 0.8m in size and i...
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We are having trouble with a couple of Effluent Tanks where holes are appearing in the Large Mild steel Tanks as per picture below.
These tanks are 5m high and are 4 panels high and its only the top panel that seems to be a problem and only in certain areas around the tank.
We are trying to...
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Quite new to project so this might be an easy answer
We have 5 separate Projects on the go , i want to now create a Weekly summary of these to show our client progress but on the summary I might not want to show him all the tasks on that project only specific ones . I have tried creating a...
We have been asked to manufacture a Filter for the Waste Water Industry , something we do quite often.
The Filter is made from perforated sheet & conical in shape.
Basket perforation dims are roughly
200 i.d small end
250mm I.d big end
590 mm high
Sheet is 4mm 316 st/st
Pitch of...
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I'll start off by saying i don't think there is an easy answer to this but thought i would throw it out to the community just in case anyone has a solution i hadn't considered yet.
We have a large Pipework Assembly that we have modelled ( see attached file) Each Colour of pipe is itself an...
We have a project where we need to manufacture some Pipework brackets from Mild Steel. We therefore need to calculate the load that the pipework will apply to the brackets and this is where we need some help if possible. I have attached the loads the Pipework Designer has specified to enable me...
I'm hoping someone might be able to help me , we are planning to install some pipework at a clean water processing plant. The Tube is 500mm Dia x 3mm wall thickness in 316 st/st and we have several stabbings coming off of his main Tube as per this one of which is shown here . I'm trying to...
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Has anyone come across this unit of Flow rate , Lm - 1 , we have a spec for 1 -5 Lm-1 for a flow rate but not sure what this is,and have an equation for converting it to L/min
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Hi I have an old 1960's drawing which has a 12mm thick base plate of a mild steel tank . There is an annotation on the drawing pointing to this base plate which says " WQMS Mild Steel".
I'm thinking this could be Water Quenched Mild Steel but its only a hunch .
would anyone be able to clarify...
We have to drill and tap lots of M8 threaded holes in Galvanised steel RSJ beams to fix some open flooring panels to the top of it .
The fixings being used are M8 A4 Stainless steel bolts and we want to apply something to the tapped hole prior to fitting the bolts to stop the tapped hole from...
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We have a problem with how best to Mark / Identify the steel work which we manufacture ( typically platforms and staircases ) to comply with The National Structural Steelwork Specification For Building Construction CE regs.
I believe that all components need to have an identifying mark on...
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We have a problem with how best to Mark / Identify the steel work which we manufacture ( typically platforms and staircases ) to comply with CE regs.
I believe that all components need to have an identifying mark on them so they can be traced back to the material certificate they were...
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Can you please advise me on the best thing to Bond 3mm sheets of Aluminium to 16mm Structural Ply board .
The size of the sheets are 800mm wide x 2700 high .
Its for high Spec Shop Cabinets which are inside a retail shop so there needs to be no chance of it coming unstuck & must adhere the...
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I am making some bespoke aluminium cabinets that are going to be made from 10mm aluminium 6082 tooling plate & sent to a polishers to apply a brushed finish.
I have attached a picture to show you the sort of thing we are making.
The Brushing process would leave the aluminium exposed &...
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I need to produce some high spec cabinets with a box joint on the ends of large sheets of 10mm thick aluminium 6082 T6 tooling plate , the sheet sizes range from 400 w x 2500mm long to 800 w x 3000mm long . I have attached a picture of a sample cabinet we produced which was milled on a...
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I have been asked to manufacture a roller that produces the top pastry circles ( with various designs ) for mince pies .
The roller Ø is 200 mm & 400mm long & the required circular tops are about 70mm so in total we will have 2 rows of 6 cavities around the roller . So as the roller...
