High-volume manufacturing is also known as mass production. It involves producing large numbers of components and parts efficiently using grinding, milling, drilling, and turning. Automation, along with skilled machinists, allows companies to create quality components and parts faster than before using programmed and repetitive tasks created to produce larger quantities of similarly or identically made parts.
Using automated machinery and processes to manufacture large numbers of consistent-quality components, high-volume manufacturing simplifies production, decreases cycle periods, and improves total manufacturing efficiency with minimal variations, waste, and downtime.
Smart companies understand that fast, accurately produced parts are good for both contract manufacturers and the companies they produce parts and products for.
What Is Production Machining?
Production machining is the process of cutting raw materials into the necessary shapes parts, and components. Volume manufacturing makes production machining cost-effective and increases manufacturing efficiency. Both companies benefit from this speedier manufacturing process.
Modern production machining frequently incorporates Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines. CNC utilizes specialized software to control the grinders, routers, plasma cutters, mills, and lathes involved in the process. Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software is frequently used along with CNC to further automate the process since CAM software generates the programs understood by CNC machines.
The advanced software shrinks the turnaround time needed to produce parts and components. Machinists go from the initial design to an accurately completed product much faster than before.
Improving High-Volume Manufacturing
Manufacturing efficiency comes from continual improvement. The faster a company can produce its customers’ products, the better. With high-volume manufacturing, which involves both advanced technology (including robotics) and expert skills.
Because the process is standardized, it’s easy to consistently produce quality products for a customer. And because the process is mostly hands-off with little supervision, work is almost nonstop with consistent accuracy for the same parts. This is the case for both prototypes as well as full production runs.
Although having skilled workers is essential to the process, production machining also improves high-volume manufacturing with a lesser requirement for labor. Costs are lowered per part as well as overall. Reducing the number of laborers reduces cost as well as the increased possibility of human error in production, increasing manufacturing efficiency.
Other Benefits
Producing parts faster, better, and for less gives companies a competitive advantage that they might not have otherwise. In return, they foster sustainability, and long-term growth, and strengthen their market position. This also allows companies to scale down when needed.
In addition to automation, robotics is also available to enrich a company’s productivity and transform production workflows into more straightforward processes.
Let Brown Industries Handle Your Contract Manufacturing Needs
Whether you need help fabricating a single component, a subassembly, or manufacturing a complete product, Brown Industries offers contract manufacturing for whatever your company designs. Whatever you can design, Brown Industries can help you manufacture it faster and for less.
