SERVICES

Sheet Metal Engineering

Surface Coating

Electromechanical Assembly

CAPACITY SHEETS

Capacity (Sheet Metal)

Capacity (Surface Coating)

FEATURE - LASER PROFILING

A laser is a device that emits a narrow low-divergence light-wave beam of (usually) identical frequency and phase. When set up for cutting, a gas laser delivers controlled intense heat to a small precise area.

The intense heat either vaporizes or melts a small area of material, dependant upon the application. By moving the device over the workpiece, a clean channel is cut throught the material.

Advantages of Lasering

Laser cut edges are cleaner and better formed than punched edges. The profile can be almost infinitely complex, with no set-geometry tooling required, which also means less material is wasted. A small and light laser head moves over the material, instead of the material moving under a large heavy punch turret, which leads to better repeatable accuracy and higher throughput.

Advantages of Punching

Punching consumes less energy than laser cutting, and so is sometimes more cost effective. Punches can be used to press formed features such as louvres in the same operation.

Sheet Metal Engineering

Sheet Metal Engineering
  • Robotic, CNC & semi-manual plant - for a range of batch sizes
  • Full range of primary & auxiliary in-house operations
  • Laser profiling & laser inspection station
  • Skilled & experienced workforce

Reputation for Quality

Our sheet metal engineering service continues to be the cornerstone upon which our long standing reputation is built.

As a forward thinking company, we continuously invest in the most effective current technology (such as combined laser/punching and robotic manufacturing cells), whilst retaining traditional manual skills for optimum flexibility. Our sheet metal capacity sheet qualifies this assertion.

Service Scope

The primary areas of our sheet metal engineering service are:

  • Laser & Punch Profiling - using laser profilers, punch presses, and the first Pullmax combined Laser/Punch profiler in the UK
  • Bending & Folding - using robotic bending cells and CNC brake presses
  • Welding, Riveting, Inserts - using a robotic spotwelding cell, manual spotwelding, MAG/TAG welding,  CNC/manual inserters

Volumes and Materials

The range and scale of automation of the plant used by Ripley Engineering enables us to offer an effective service covering batch sizes from one to hundreds or more.

We have accumulated a great deal of experience with a variety of materials and grades; from general commercial to food and medical industry grades of stainless and other steels, aluminium, plus further metallic and non-metallic materials.

Design Communication

We will happily accept printed drawings of your engineering designs. For a faster turnaround, however, we can accept a variety of drawing file formats for direct use or conversion into our internal engineering software (primarily Radan and Solidworks).

To see a detailed table of the drawing file formats we can accept, please click here.