Pickwick Capabilities

Design / Engineering:

• Inventor™ and AutoCAD™ operating on 9 workstations
  
• Concept development, prototypes and design for manufacture from Solids Modeling
  
• Reverse Engineering using Faro Arm CMM -- from model to CAD
  
• Input accepted from dxf, dwg or IGES files or prints; ProE™ compatible
  
• EDI - electronic data interchange
  Bar coding
  
• ERP Vantage™ by Epicor Software for facility-wide scheduling and resource planning

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Blanking:

• Lasers: capacity to 3500 watts and 72" x 144" table size with automatic loading
  
• Sheet Turret Punch: 50-ton capacity, 56 stations (2 auto-index) for 50" x 72" without repositioning
  
• Structural Lasers
• • Round Tube to 11.8"
  • Square Tube to 8" or equivalent in channel, angle, beam or extrusion
  • 26 axis, 4000 watt, 26.25' lengths
  • automatic load and unload
  • 5 Spindle Tapping Head
  • Wall Thickness to 1/2" steel
• Saws: capacities to 18" wide x 24" vertical with automatic feed and powered conveyors for straight and angular cuts
  
• Ironworker: Geka 100S 120-ton capacity, 12" throat

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Machining:

• Lathe: 16" swing, 60" between centers, 9" over carriage; threading from 4 - 100 + threads/inch; taper attachment for shafts
  
• Mill: Bridgeport; 27" travel, 12" cross-feed, 17" height, 45 deg. tilt head.
  
• Mill, Bridge: Milltronics BR-60 w/ CNC controls, 120" x 60" table for high speed milling, drilling and tapping

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Metal Fabrication:

• Brake press, Precision: CNC Amadas to 138-ton w/ 14' bed and 8-axis controls
  
• Brake press, Heavy: 1,250-ton Cincinnati w/ 20' bed, 26" throat, 16' between housings and CNC backgauge
  
• Rolls: 1-1/2" x 1-1/2" x 3/16" angle, 1/4" x 6 ft. plate
  
• Hardware Insertion: Haeger 6-ton Press for rivets, panel fasteners, eyelets, spacers, studs, nuts, and standoffs
  
• Tube Bending: Eaton Leonard model 300, Premier Controller networked to Vector Measuring Machine for self-correction; capacity to 3" nominal diameter pipe

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Heavy Lift:

• Space: 100,000 sq. ft. of open-bay assembly floor, 20 acres of fenced storage.
  
• Cranes: 45-ton and 30-ton with 32 ft. clear space under hook
  
• Access: At I380 and US 30 with interior railway spur;
  "One of the finest large metal component manufacturing facilities in the Midwest"

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Welding:

• Welding: 35 MIG welders, 3 TIG welders for mild and stainless steels and aluminum
  
• Spot Welding: 150 KVA certified spotwelder

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Quality Assurance:

Coordinate Measuring machines:

• Faro portable articulated arm with 48" reach; sensing probe accurate to +/- 0.002" with input directly into AutoCAD for reverse engineering, modeling.
  
• Vector 4XL laser VMM: designed for measurement of formed tube; two-way communication to Eaton Leonard bender for instant spring-back adjustments and consistent parts.

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Finishing:

• Sand Blasting: 160 cfm, 100 psig with 300 lb. portable rig;
  
• Polishing: stainless steel polishing, pharmaceutical / sanitary to a # 4 finish
  
• Paint: for large and small parts
  • Conveyorized powder paint system for parts to 60" x 60" x 80", heated phosphate cleaning; infrared and convection bake oven; batch booth for larger parts
  • Wet paint booth