Estes Design & Manufacturing, Inc.
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Indianapolis, IN 46229-3058 | map
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Business Description
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- About Estes Design & Manufacturing, Inc.
We are a sheet metal fabricator still in operation for essential industries. We've got product development, prototyping and full production capabilities and plenty of capacity right now to ramp up quickly on essential industry fabrication. For the production of in-demand COVID-19 response related products, we can supply materials or component parts.
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ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 certified sheet metal fabricator. Capabilities include fully-automated CNC laser cutting, CNC punching, CNC panel bending (all Salvagnini) and 5-axis laser welding along with conventional fabricating processes. Services include product development, rapid prototyping and inventory management. Markets include OEMs in industries including medical, office furniture, HVAC, appliance and food service equipment. Materials include carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminum up to 1/4 in. thick. Product examples include panels, enclosures, surgical cases and trays and components and assemblies made to customer specifications.
Company Description by Estes Design & Manufacturing, Inc.
Estes Design and Manufacturing is a full-service sheet metal fabricator. We offer customers a combination of product design, engineering, rapid prototyping and manufacturing services using advanced technology, including 3D laser welding.
From conceptual design to full production, our staff of engineers, CAD designers, and manufacturing professionals collaborate to create an environment for rapid response manufacturing across a broad range of product and industry applications: medical equipment, appliance, HVAC, office furniture manufacturing, aerospace, and more.
Today, Estes employs a staff of more than 100 associates, and its manufacturing facility is housed in 50,000 square feet to provide even the largest companies with quality products and services. Estes has made it a priority in the past several years to acquire the latest fabricating technology. Using automation when it adds value to the process ensures customers the most cost-effective solutions to the challenges of manufacturing. More... Less
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Primary Company Type:
- Custom Manufacturer
Additional Activities:
- Manufacturer, Service Company, Finishing Service Company
Key Personnel:
- Tim Estes, President
- Roger Brown, Sales Manager
- Jay Reddick, Laser Welding Manager
- Matt Gray, Prototype Shop Manager
- Pat Fox, Sales Representative
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Annual Sales:
- $10 - 24.9 Mil
No of Employees:
- 50-99
Year Founded:
- 1976
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Since 1976, Estes Design and Manufacturing has been providing fabrication expertise through state of the art technology with their sheet metal fabrication services. Estes' sheet metal processing services help diverse industries design and build quality products.They More... provide unparalleled know-how for forming complex configurations, working with aluminum, carbon steel, and stainless steel materials. Their processes are capable of maintaining tight tolerances of ±0.005" for punched or laser cut materials, ±0.010" cut feature to feature, ±0.015" feature to formed edge, and ±0.030" form edge to form edge for formed parts. The company is able to fabricate parts requiring multiple holes, patterns, and bends, offering increasingly competitive costs as part complexity intensifies. A variety of automated processes, from panel bending to laser welding, can be applied to materials in sheet, tubes, or bar form of thicknesses up to 0.500" Steel, 0.375" Stainless Steel, and 0.25" Aluminum. Capable of processing materials up to 120" long x 60" wide, Estes' products include panels, enclosures, weldments, and complete assemblies, with regular 4-week lead times. The company provides low and high production volumes, operating under certified ISO 9001:2015 and following FDA regulations to maintain world-class quality. To learn more about Estes' sheet metal fabrication service highlights, see the table below. For further discussion, contact Estes directly. Less
Estes Design and Manufacturing provides premier laser welding services for customers in a variety of industries. Estes' laser welding solutions provide extreme precision for joining carbon steel or stainless steel materials using automated CNC equipment.Appropriate More... for a number of applications, their 3D laser welding provides finished products with clean welds without compromising strength or aesthetics. The electron beam welding process provides more cost advantages compared to traditional welding, with laser welding being up to 10x faster than traditional MIG welding and up to 40x faster than traditional TIG welding. These processes work on materials in sheet, tube, and bar form up to 0.25" thick. The manufacturing system handles material up to 43" wide, 86" long, and 15" high (3D Work Envelope). Capable of low and high volume production, with typical volumes between 250-1,000 pieces, Estes delivers impeccable panels, enclosures, weldments, and complete assemblies. Following ISO 9001:2015 quality and FDA registration guidelines, quality output is their commitment. For details about this capability, refer to the table below. Contact Estes Design and Manufacturing directly for additional information. Less
Estes Design and Manufacturing has developed a team of experienced engineers, technicians, and technologies to provide express prototyping services to a wide range of customers. Their functional prototypes allow customers to evaluate an assembly's design and functionality More... very early in the development stages. Estes provides CAD design for tooling, designing for manufacturability and assembly, consulting, reverse engineering, and small run productions.The Indianapolis facility has a dedicated in-house fabrication area for prototypes and low volume production work. The Estes Express fabrication processes includes five axis laser cutting, forming, traditional welding, and resistant spot welding, among others. Fully functioning prototypes are formed from aluminum, carbon steel, and stainless steel materials. The company systems are capable of working with sheet metal up to 60" wide by 120" long. With prompt lead times of less than one week, and production volumes between 1 to 50 pieces, Estes Express prototypes are manufactured under the same high quality standards as fully functioning assemblies. Additional details about Estes Express Prototyping services are listed in the table below. For more information on how Estes express prototyping can be of service to you, contact Estes directly. Less
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CLIENT NEEDA small, leading edge communications company was in start-up mode and needed a supplier that could help take a rough product concept and make it a commercialized reality. If that was not enough, the company needed a supplier that could dedicate its people More... and equipment to the job when needed so that on-the-fly revisions could be incorporated and extremely tight lead-times could be met.SOLUTIONOver the years, Estes has worked with the client to continuously design and prototype many products, some within a turnaround time of as little as two days. This is possible because one person at Estes is designated the project manager (PM). This PM handles designing, quoting, programming, and fabricating of the project. No hand-offs between Estes team members means tight lead-times are met and on-the-fly revision changes aren’t lost in the shuffle.RESULTThe prototyping team met the client's need to have a new prototype in three days. This project included having parts programmed, laser cut, deburred, formed, welded, and hardware installed, so that the client could have the parts painted and to their end user in order to fulfill an urgent need. The client provided Estes with the CAD models, and the Estes team programmed and manufactured the product directly from those CAD files. Ultimately, the partnership with Estes allowed this client to be able to meet the needs of its customer faster, resulting in increased sales. Less
CLIENT NEEDThe design for a client's stainless steel box consisted of four pieces formed in a Z-shape at the press brake. These four pieces were then welded at the corners, which caused the stainless steel to warp slightly. The assembly had a brushed, cosmetic flange More... around the perimeter that would remain visible to the end user. To maintain an appealing look, the welds had to be ground, and then the flange had to be brushed.SOLUTIONThis finishing process was very labor-intensive and costly, so Estes proposed a redesign to the customer. Utilizing their Salvagnini forming cell's capability to form complex, tight-tolerance bends, they formed the part from one blank instead of four. The edges were brought together so precisely they could be laser welded at the seams. The laser welding eliminated the warping and the secondary finishing.RESULTThe reduction of components and finishing and assembly time dropped the cost of production from $43.73 to $38.73, while improving the quality of the part. Less
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Reduce your sheet metal fabrication lead-times without compromising quality with Estes Max Velocity automated cell technology.
This white paper covers the basic questions regarding 3D laser welding.
For almost four decades, Estes has invested in the best people and the latest equipment. When walking through our facility, you will see state-of-the-art CNC technology like the Salvagnini punching cells, laser cutters, and panel benders; Amada turret presses and automated press brakes; PRIMA Domino 5-axis laser welder; Genesis robotic welder and other cutting-edge fabricating equipment. View Estes full technology equipment list.
Estes Design and Manufacturing's eBook entitled "5 reasons why laser welding is the optimal choice for your next welding project" outlines five of the major advantages of using laser welding and discusses some of the reasons why you should partner with Estes for your sheet metal fabricating and welding needs. Download your free ebook and learn about the most compelling reasons to make the switch to laser welding.
When considering laser welding for a project or assembly, be sure to discuss the alternatives to joint construction before the part or assembly is set to paper. There are usually alternatives that will allow you to benefit from the speed, accuracy, and quality of the laser welding process, but these alternatives need to be addressed in the beginning stages of part creation in order for the benefits to be realized.
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Literature & Websites
March 30, 2021 - As a design and innovation leader in the sheet metal fabrication industry, it is important for Estes to make information regarding our services and trends easily accessible for our current and prospective clients. In an effort to share our knowledge and expertise in the industry, Estes had created a new Resources section on our website. This new page efficiently offers a wide variety of high-quality information and also makes it easy for website visitors to find. What You’ll Find...
Literature & Websites
March 5, 2021 - Estes Design and Manufacturing is excited to launch a 3D Laser Welding Whitepaper series. These whitepapers will be written by Estes’ resident expert, Jay Reddick. Jay has been with Estes since the beginning. In 2009, when Estes decided to invest in leading-edge technology in the laser welding market, Jay was integral in the R & D effort, experimenting on corner welds in cold rolled steel. Estes developed much of the team’s expertise with laser...
New Product & Services
October 30, 2020 - Estes Design and Manufacturing is excited to announce the introduction of our new Estes Max Velocity cell! Meeting quality, on-time delivery, and lead-time objectives are some of the biggest challenges companies face when outsourcing their sheet metal products. Max Velocity is Estes’ automated sheet metal fabrication cell designed to address these daily challenges. The automated nature and advanced technology of the cell enable it to provide exceptional quality, shorter leadtimes, and...
Company News
September 11, 2020 - In order to better serve our customers' need for improved speed to market, Estes Design and Manufacturing is combining its Estes Express Prototyping department and Product Development team into a new group called Estes Accelerator! Estes Accelerator is a dedicated product development and prototype team that can assist customers in any stage of their product development process - from product conception to full production and every step along the way, Estes Accelerator is ready to partner...
Company News
August 20, 2020 - At Estes Design and Manufacturing, we’ve invested in the highest-quality technology available for our customers’ metal fabrication needs - machines whose unique capabilities benefit our customers through cost reduction, improved quality, and reduced lead-times. We strive to proactively and constantly monitor our equipment and standards to better serve our customers, which is why we’re excited to announce we’ve just made a major machinery investment. The newest piece of...
Company News
September 7, 2016 - Indianapolis, IN, 09/1/2016 - Estes Design and Manufacturing, Inc. closed on the purchase of Automated Weapon Security late last week to form a new company, Estes AWS, which will manufacture and sell Rapid Access Weapon Lockers nation-wide. The Estes ...
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October 26, 2015 - At Estes Design and Manufacturing, we create a competitive advantage for our customers through innovative design, cost savings and speed. One reason we are able to deliver this competitive advantage is through Estes Express Rapid Prototyping and its dedicated employees. Rapid prototyping work for Estes continues to grow. In fact, Estes Express Rapid Prototyping had a record breaking last quarter of our fiscal year. This department also recently moved to a new area within our production...
Company News
August 20, 2015 - Estes is adding 35,000 square feet of manufacturing space to accommodate demand for sterilization cases and trays. A medical production cell will be the first cell set-up in the new facility space. The expansion will also provide room for more medical ...
Company News
August 20, 2015 - As we’ve previously mentioned, Estes recently added 35,000 square feet of manufacturing space to accommodate growth of our business. The first cell set-up in this new space was for medical production. This medical cell includes a laser, deburring machine, edge-rounding machine, press brake, assembly equipment, and an inspection hub. This new medical cell puts additional emphasis on Estes’ commitment to cellular manufacturing and lean initiatives to produce better more...
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August 19, 2015 - The manufacturing industry has certifications showcasing a company’s commitment to efficiency, process systems, risk management, quality control, and other high-level standards. For Estes, being awarded the ISO 13485 certification would allow for ...
White Papers & Case Studies
This white paper outlines the advantages of laser welding. View More and Download
Laser Welding And the Reduction in Peripheral Costs Commonly Associated with Standard Weld Finishing
Examines traditional welding vs. 3D laser welding. View More and Download
