Prototek CNC Machining

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Our newly developed precision machining company, advanced rapid machining also known as ARM – has 6 NEW CNC machining centers, 4 CNC lathes and 6 (3 axis) knee mills; allowing us to keep tighter tolerances and handle larger and longer parts than normal. We can offer as little as a week lead time, several weeks faster than the indurstry standard. Call us if you have any questions on our capabilities. 800-403-9777

Prototek Manufacturing presently has 2 turning centers, in which we can handle all of your turning needs. We have a Mori Seiki SL-15 to handle long running jobs it features a 1 5/8” thru spindle, a 12 station turret, with speeds up to 6000 RPM and a Yasnak LX3 control. In this machine we can turn up to 7.900” in diameter and up to 18.50” in length. We also have a Hitachi Seiki hitec-turn 20SIII, this machine is designed for quick turn parts it has a Yasnak multi L control. This control lets us program the machine of the fly using its conversational program package. With this machine we can turn your parts up to 13.500” diameter and 15.000” in length. It features a 2.000” thru the spindle, a 12 station turret and turning speeds up to 5000 RPM. With these 2 machines Prototek Manufacturing feels we can service just about any customer that calls on us.

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Prototek Manufacturing CNC Laser

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The addition of the Amada 4000 watt Pulsar 2415 5′ X 16′ Cell combines the latest developments in laser machines and automated loading/unloading technologies. The Pulsar laser is a high speed production or short run sheet metal parts processing machine with parts productivity rivaling a turret punch and with the MP1225 Load/Unloader, and the MST1225 6 Shelf Tower System the 3 machines combine to make a productive cell for processing materials up to 1/2 thick steels and 3/8 thick aluminum. With this machines exceptionally fast operating speed and accurate cut over an extensive range of material gauges and types of alloys it allows us to process an incredible variety of parts without sacrificing productivity. Prototek Manufacturing feels we can service just about any customer that calls on us.

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Prototek CNC Forming/Bending

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Precision forming/bending is accomplished with minimum effort using these machines. CNC programming allows an infinite number of backguage and ram settings with bending pressures that exceed 110 tons. Maximum length capability is 10 feet. The addition of our newest Amada forming machine offers 3D simulation between the control and our network server, high-speed 8 axis backguage, and offers quick setup, high speed operation and increased throughput.

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Prototek Manufacturing Powder Coating

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At Prototek, we have vertically integrated an anodizing and chromating system, powder coating and wet spray system and a 3-stage iron phosphate washer to allow us full control over finish on quick turn projects. Our plating room is RoHs (Ro-House) compliant, which is the new standard for environmentally friendly chemicals. We start with a 3-stage phosphate wash, which is critical in the pretreatments of all metals. It is a rust prohibiter and has great adhesive qualities to allow us to provide class 1 parts. As with any form of coating, pretreatment is a very important step in the process. With over 20 years experience, we are able to ensure that these processes are kept at the highest level of quality, which we are proud to say is the end result.

 

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Prototek CNC Punching

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Flexible manufacturing at its best! We can punch any diameter hole, rectangle, shape, angle, or contour. Programs are created using Metalsoft Fabriwin. Our state of the art turrets can accommodate sheets up to 4 feet x 12 feet with a maximum sheet thickness of 1/4 inch, and a wide variety of tooling shapes. Up to 33 ton punching capacity.

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Prototek Manufacturing Tour

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Prototek Manufacturing decreases lead times by another 20%!

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Prototek Manufacturing decreases lead times by another 20%!

Prototek continues to decrease lead times, making them the fastest rapid manufacturing and prototype sheet metal and machine shop plant in the country, and possibly the US. Prototek has incorporated painting, plating, powder coating, and silk screening to their list of capabilities, as well as maintaining a large stock of material, PEM hardware, and assembly hardware. These new additions allow Prototek to save the customer days of production time, lowering average lead times by 20%!

 

Prototek is now able to carry many colors and textures of paint and powder coat, eliminating the need to send sheet metal and machined metal parts out to multiple vendors. They can also plate prototype and production parts with RoHS chromate, anodize, and iridite, and silkscreen in any color and any size.

 

Prototek’s stock of sheet metal is key in producing quality parts in a limited time frame. With six large rack systems, they almost always have the required material in stock. The same can also be said about their nine large hardware racking systems, carrying about one thousand types of hardware at any given time!

 

Production meetings are held early every day, covering all jobs coming in, jobs to be programmed, jobs being worked on on, and jobs that have to ship. This allows for all managers to be on the same page, and in a team fashion, strategically place employees on jobs and departments as they see fit to maintain their rapid prototype and production lead times.

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Prototek New C1 Combination Laser / Turret Punch Press

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Prototek’s New C1 Combination Laser / Turret Punch Press Offers Many Enhanced Processing Capabilities

Visitors to the Prototek Manufacturing have a unique opportunity to preview Prototeks latest combination laser / turret punch press, the model LC2012C1-NT, also known simply as the “C1”. According to Amada America, the C1 has been engineered from the ground-up based upon extensive feedback received from a wide range of worldwide customers, like Prototek Manufacturing. The goal of the C1 is to provide Prototek the ability to work with materials up to 1/4” thick with seamless process integration of laser and punching operations, to increase productivity while reducing costs. In addition, the C1 reflects Prototek’s ongoing commitment to purchase machines that are friendly to the environment through reduced energy and petroleum product consumption.

The laser portion of the C1 features the Amada/Fanuc AF2000i-B LU2.5 resonator with 2.5 kilowatts of cutting power. The laser head moves in the Y-axis via a direct drive servo mechanism for maximum speed and accuracy, and is isolated from punching vibration to help maintain beam integrity and cut quality. A cartridge-type lens assures simple and fast lens changes when required. The resonator is located on a frame designed to reduce floor space requirements and to provide isolation from punching vibration.

The punching portion of the C1 is based upon the highly successful AC-series of 22-ton servo drive turret punch presses. The servo drive not only offers punching speeds of up to 370 hpm on 1” centers, but is also more efficient than hydraulic punch drives, requiring no pump or chiller.

To maximize punching productivity in conjunction with laser cutting, the C1 features the new 45-station MPT Multi-Purpose Turret. Two of the unique features of the MPT turret include four tapping tool stations (English and metric thread tools available) and three powered die lift stations to facilitate upward forms while reducing material scratches and preventing downward forms from hitting the forming dies during sheet movements.

The C1 is equipped with a versatile brush table that provides a number of features to increase productivity and part quality. The brushes help reduce material scratching, while limiting punching noise. Pop-up urethane rollers help reduce brush wear during the laser processing of thick materials. Special high-temperature brush material is installed in the laser cutting area (Y-axis), and a large 15-3/4” x 50” work chute helps ensure the easy removal of finished parts and scrap. A lifting brush table section helps to remove downward forms from the die before the next sheet moves into place. An automatic sheet loading feature simply requires the operator (in manually loaded applications) to place the sheet within approximately 2” of the X-Y gauge blocks, and activate the automatic loading mechanism. This provides accurate material placement against the gauge blocks and activates the pneumatic work clamps. With its full 4’ x 8’ sheet capacity in up to 1/4” thick material, the C1 achieves better material utilization ratios, especially when using our Blank software for dynamic nesting.

Designed with a small footprint to reduce the amount of floor space required at our plant.

According to Bruce, Keith and Darlene Isabelle and Brian Francoeur, Prototeks Production Managers: We see the C1 machine as an excellent choice for Prototek, we recognize how important it is to provide fast, flexible responses to our customer demands. The innovative features of the C1 not only provide a fast track from print-to-part, but will help eliminate many costly secondary operations, which frees-up shop labor for more value-added tasks. We feel that we will experience not only increased productivity but reduced costs, but we will also gain the capabilities to offer new services or take on work that they may never have been able to profitably do before.

Prototek Manufacture continues to invest in the latest technologies for speed and efficiency. It is an ongoing commitment to find the new technologies that will help Prototek reduce green house gasses to the environment by purchasing these new green machines.

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Prototek Manufacturing Engineering-Programming

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Prototek Manufacturing can open native Solidworks, Pro e, AutoCAD, Inventor, Plus many others. Our engineers are fluent with each of these software programs and we own many seats of these softwares.

Prototek Manufacturing can engineer your projects from your ideas or help you in your design process.

Prototek Manufacturing Has the following software in house to simplify our process:

For sheet metal punching, Laser and Laser/Punching Combo (The new C1)

*SolidWorks-Multiple seats
*MetalSoft Fabriwin 11
*Pro-E
*Metal Soft IntelliNest
*AutoCad

For sheet metal Forming(Bending) for offline programming

*Bend Com
*Bend Cam

For Machining we use the following Software

*WinMax
*SolidWorks
*CamWorks

This allows us to program your parts by using a variety of software like Camworks, Gibbs cam, Mastercam and Winmax based on which program is suited best for your fabricated parts. We then send programs to our laser, punchpress or maching centers; this process aids us in the rapid production of your fabricated parts.

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Prototek Manufacturing

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          *** CELEBRATING 30 YEARS ***

Prototek Manufacturing began in 1987 as a family owned and operated business as a supplier of quick turn precision sheetmetal and machined products for the prototype markets. Today we are still a family owned and operated business. Prototek Sheet Metal Fabrication specializes in rapid prototyping of precision sheet metal and machined prototypes, short run productions, and quick turn around products and apply the most state of the art and comprehensive processes to meet the competitive demands of our industry. Prototek Machining has a multitude of state of the art milling and turning machines to accommodate our rapid prototyping of machining prototyping way of business.

Prototek Sheet Metal fabricates custom precision sheet metal components using the following materials:
Steel, Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Spring Steel, Titanium, Inconel, Copper, Brass, Tubing, Channel, G-10, LEX-AN, Phenolic, and many more! We have hundreds of raw materials in stock to meet our customers demands on any given day.

We now have the largest 4000 Watt Laser Cell in the northeast, and have acquired Amada’s newest Fiber Optic Laser which is engineered to produce the highest quality at unmatched speed. Add to that two Amada laser/turret combination cells and our 5’x16′ Pulsar for prototype custom laser cutting; please call for more information.

Prototek Manufacturing, LLC
244 Burnham Intervale Rd
Contoocook, NH 03229

Toll Free 800-403-9777

Local 603-746-2001
Fax 603-746-2427

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