Industry
Construction, Mining & Earthmoving
Earthmoving, mining and construction equipment lives on heavy fabrications, castings, forgings and hydraulics, in low volumes and high variety.
The context
Low volume, high variety, heavy content.
Booms, arms, frames and buckets are heavy fabrications: thick plate, long weld seams, machined interfaces and castings at the joints. Volumes rarely justify hard tooling, so cost sits in plate use, weld metre, fixtures, machining set-ups and the rework that never reaches the drawing.
Serviceability matters as much as first cost. Wear parts, hydraulic components and spares carry their own supply, pricing and availability questions.
Where we help
The work we do in Construction, Mining & Earthmoving.
Fabrication should-cost
Plate nesting, weld metre, fixtures and set-ups costed from the drawing.
Castings & forgings at the joints
Yield, machining allowance and heat treatment interrogated at process level.
Machining of large, low-volume parts
Set-ups, fixtures and machine-hour rates for parts that do not repeat often.
Hydraulics and bought-out components
Make-or-buy, supplier consolidation and total cost of ownership.
Supplier capability for welded structures
Welder qualification, fixtures, distortion control and capacity, assessed on site.
India sourcing
Fabrications, castings and machined parts sourced and industrialised in India.
The same categories, other industries
Sheet metal, forgings, castings, machining and electrical components serve all of these.
The process is the same; the standards, volumes and approvals change. Our specialists work across every industry below.
Heavy fabrications that cost more than they should?
Tell us about the part, the programme or the supply base. A senior member of our team will respond.
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