One route. Fourteen steps. Six quality gates.
Bought-out parts and in-house fabrication run in parallel and meet at the first assembly. The machine is assembled in bare steel to prove fit, then again after shot blasting and painting.
The machine is fixed on paper before any steel is cut.
Your part, sheet and forming area set the machine configuration. The order opens one work-order number that every later task carries.
The machine is modelled in 3D CAD and released as 2D shop drawings. Each drawing is attached to the task that uses it.
The BOM is split by discipline — mechanical, cylinders and pneumatics, electrical, and hardware — so each team builds from its own list.
Bought-out parts are ordered against the BOM while fabrication starts.
Steel, pneumatic, electrical, vacuum and heater components are ordered against the BOM. Outsourced job work is logged out and back in.
Bought-out parts and returned job work are checked on receipt, before they reach the assembly floor.
Structural parts are cut, machined and welded in-house.
Steel profiles are cut on the bandsaw and plate on the laser, to the shop drawings.
CNC machining, drilling and plate bending for the parts that set alignment and motion.
Frames, heater boxes and tables are welded and fabricated, each traceable to its drawing.
Built twice: once in bare steel to prove fit, once finished to run.
The structure and moving parts are assembled in bare steel and aligned, then dismantled for finishing.
Fit and alignment are signed off while the steel is still bare, so a correction never damages a finished surface.
Frames are shot blasted, primed and top-coated in RAL 7035 light grey. Covers and pipes are powder coated; shafts and brackets are plated or blackened.
Painted parts are re-assembled and fitted with pneumatics, heaters, the vacuum system and the moving tables.
The machine runs and forms parts here before it leaves.
The control panel is built and the machine is wired: heaters, drives, sensors and safety circuits.
Motion, heating, vacuum and the forming cycle are programmed, with recipes stored on the HMI.
A written checklist of visual, safety and functional checks, then a forming trial on a demo tool. Customers are invited to witness it.
A final check of the accepted machine before it is dismantled for shipping.
A floor plan for your site is issued. The machine is split into shipping modules, vacuum packed on its base, hardware boxed and labelled, and loaded.
Our engineers install and commission the machine at your plant and train your operators.
The machine is run again on your floor, with your utilities, before handover.
The exact PF1 checklist follows the ordered configuration and is agreed before the build. A forming trial on a demo tool follows the checks.
Illustrative simulation of the Machinecraft shop floor. Layout, timings and staffing are schematic. The PF1-X is the supplied machine model; other families are simplified forms. 14 build steps, no public prices.
