Engineering of Roll Formed Steel Products
One of OMCO’s core competencies as well as an important competitive advantage is our in-house roll formed steel engineering and design capabilities. Our engineering staff is comprised of some of the most experienced and respected professionals in the roll forming industry. Their collective expertise in all aspects of the roll forming process is a tremendous resource which is unmatched in the industry.
Whenever a new product is quoted and then manufactured by OMCO, it is these industry experts that review the design, determine the optimum rolling progression, design the roll sets required for each station, design the cut-off die, and so on until all manufacturing operation are fully defined.
Once all the required components are fabricated, OMCO personnel manufacture the entire roll forming mill including all of its in-line operations. The end result is a superior manufacturing process designed to efficiently produce a roll formed part that meets all of our customer’s defined specifications.
This “flower” illustrates the progressive bends applied to steel to form a final part.
Some of the components designed in-house are:
- Individual roll set design
- Complete rolling mill design
- Cut off die design
- Stamping and punching die design
- Electrical control system design
- Control logic for entire mill and other in-line operations
These capabilities yield the following benefits:
- Shorter response time on quote requests
- Faster installation and startup of new rolling mills
- Consistent system design platforms
- Highly flexible manufacturing operations
- Reduced troubleshooting time
- Greater productivity
OMCO Engineers also assist our customers in a wide variety of ways
- Product design improvements
- Material selection—Type, grade, finish, etc.
- Design-for-manufacturing considerations
- Evaluate various fastening or joining alternatives
- Assembly and packaging considerations
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Destructive testing
