Quality Tool Manufacturing Design Engineering

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About Quality Tool

Company Description by Thomasnet

Lean contract manufacturer of fabricated sheet metal & CNC machined parts, stampings, laminated bus bars, weldments, tool & dies & mechanical assemblies. Manufacturing capabilities include metal fabrication, laser cutting, CNC & manual machining, CNC milling, CNC turning, welding, CNC forming, laminating & assembly. Design, engineering, prototyping, product development & inventory management services such as Kanban & custom managed programs are also available. Design capabilities include Finite Element Analysis (FEA) services for thermal, fluid flow or stress/strain analysis, CFD, electromechanical design, mechanism design & plastic design. Industries served include medical device, computing, industrial, defense & telecommunications.

Company Description by Quality Tool

Quality Tool is a contract manufacturer that serves industries including medical, computing, industrial, telecommunications and defense. The company produces fabricated sheet metal parts, stampings, laminated bus bars, CNC machined parts, weldments and mechanical assemblies. Quality Tool also has a design and prototype division that specializes in design for manufacturability. Quality Tool has 50 years of manufacturing history. The company's domestic facilities are located in St. Paul, Minn., and Brookings, S.D. The company has a strategic global partner in Shenzhen, China.

In addition to manufacturing, Quality Tool houses a design and prototype division, QTI Design & Prototype, specializing in design for manufacturability (DFM) and quick-turn prototypes. Our designers offer innovative solutions for mechanical design and product development. We relish design challenges and can provide both cost saving and award winning solutions. As a full-service design house, we have resources for Finite More... Element Analysis (FEA) for thermal, fluid flow, or stress/strain analysis to further improve and verify a design.

Quality Tool is a certified lean manufacturer focused on inventory reduction, shortened production cycle times and on-time delivery of both prototype and production parts. We offer innovative inventory management solutions, from Kanban/conwip to customer managed inventory. Our combination of lean manufacturing and inventory management systems makes Quality Tool the industry leader in value and service. Less

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Business Details

Primary Company Type:

Custom Manufacturer

Additional Activities:

Manufacturer, Service Company, Finishing Service Company

Key Personnel:

Not Available

Diverse / Small Bus. Status

Annual Sales:

$250 Mil. and over

No of Employees:

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Year Founded:

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Product Information

Quality Tool is an industry leader in bus bar manufacturing. From high voltage bus bars weighing over 400 pounds to low voltage pieces weighing just a few ounces, we have the experience to build to the most demanding specifications. We have multiple production techniques to produce bus bars at any volume or complexity. We are experts in multiple layer laminated busses, machined busses, hi-pot testing, high and low voltage busses, low and high volume production.

Capabilities / Services

With over 900 standard tools for our CNC Turret punch press, we can achieve considerable cost savings in the manufacture of both prototype and production parts. We also have numerous special forms, including countersinks, offsets, card guides, embosses, draws, wipe forms, part makings, lettering, lances, half shears and weld projections. Contact us with additional questions about tooling. We can order most tooling within 1-2 days.

Our stamping capabilities offer superior dimensional precision and uniformity of parts in production runs. From blanking, piercing, forming and drawing, we are able to utilize either standard tooling or compound dies and progressive tooling. Our stamped parts have included EMI/RFI gaskets, card guides and bulk heads.

We offer complex mechanical assembly, PEM hardware insertion, kitting and riveting. In order to reduce lead time on mechanical assemblies, we can implement a kanban system, creating safety stock and finished assemblies based on forecast and then replenishing top level assemblies as the customer pulls in orders.

Our forming capabilities utilize both standard and autoload CNC Turret Punch Presses and European Style Press Brakes. Our specialty is chassis and server enclosure manufacturing, in addition to chassis component manufacturing. Both standard tooling and specialized forms can be utilized in the production of parts.

For parts requiring intricate contours and a maximum utilization of time and material, nothing beats our Laser Cutting systems. With no tooling and CAD to CAM software, we are able to run both prototypes and production parts with great efficiency and precision.

We have high volume Swiss type screw machines that can cut both custom and standard PEM style hardware. With a 5 axis horizontal machining center we are able to produce complex components and parts. Our CNC Machining Centers are most commonly used for drilling, tapping, countersinking, and counter-boring operations. By having in-house machining capabilities we are able to circumvent long supplier lead times and offer custom quantities of parts.

Design tips and guidelines for sheet metal fabrication, including design considerations for press brake, CNC turret press, laser and stampings.

For a complete look at what our factory can do, take a look at our equipment list.

Our tooling capabilities include temporaries, compounds, progressives and in-house hard tooling. We have over 900 standard tools for our CNC turret press and many other special forms.