Coastal Manufacturing

Laser Processing

QUICK FACTS ABOUT OUR LASER PROCESSING

Run Quantity - low to medium is ideal

Advantages - no special tooling needed - easy design changes and intricate contour cutting

Disadvantages - cannot install formed features

Material cutting capability - Thickness - up to 1" steel, 3/4" stainless, 1/2" aluminum

Material size capability - up to 5' x 10'

Special capability - intricate tube cutting, lights out capable

NC Punch

QUICK FACTS ABOUT OUR NC PUNCH:

Run Quantity - low to medium is ideal

Advantages - capable of using standard and low to moderately priced tooling (i.e. embosses, louvers, countersink, ribs, hinge) - easy design change

Disadvantages - edge quality not as smooth as with a laser

Material punching capability - up to 30 tons (usually 1/4" depending on tool size)

Material size capability - up to 4' x 8'

Special capability - programmable ram speed can reduce stress fractures, punched hinge features, lights out capable

Welding

Our versatile in-house welding capabilities are one of Coastal Manufacturing's strong suits. We routinely weld precision parts for the defense and electronic industry as well as for marine applications like mirror polished stainless yacht doors and scientific research companies for items like underwater cameras. High appearance welds are routine. We excel at developing our own weld fixtures which allows us to attain consistency and repeatability during the welding process.

QUICK FACTS ABOUT WELDING:

1. MIG, TIG, and Spot welding
2. Weld fixtures made using the precision of a laser
3. Specialize in welding stainless steel, steel and aluminum.
4. Appearance welds on stainless that are polished to #8 mirror finish

Forming

Coastal is experienced in forming complex high precision high volume parts or just the simply one off prototypes. Our operators especially enjoy the opportunity to show off their talents when working on artistic projects. With more than five decades of hands-on operator experience in forming and shaping, combined with our ongoing and forward thinking, in-house training, we are ready to tackle the most demanding forming projects.

QUICK FACTS ABOUT FORMING:

1. Ultra high precision-ground and segmented quick change tooling
2. Special application tooling made in house
3. Experience with forming into urethane
4. Experience in hot forming acrylic
5. Air-bending, bottom-bending, coining
6. All our top of the line brakes are equipped with either four or six axis back gauges

Machining

Coastal Manufacturing's capabilities are unique. We are a sheet metal contract manufacturing facility that also offers in house machining. Our CNC milling centers are equipped with pallet changers to provide high ratio of cut time to part load time.

QUICK FACTS ABOUT MACHINING :

1. Run Quantity is low to medium is ideal
2. Advantages are we can combine machining and laser to produce unique parts
3. Pallet size is up to 25" x 50"
4. Through machine part length is up to 12'

Silkscreen

In house graphic artists will assist you from concept to completion with your design and screen printing needs. Coastal proudly uses a highly tailored wide format environmentally sensitive printer to start the process then on to both automatic and manual screen printing. The final phase is part curing or drying which accomplished in a custom designed 30" conveyorized oven. The conveyor in the oven automatically moves the parts from the screen printing department to the shipping department during the drying process.

QUICK FACTS ABOUT SCREEN PRINTING:

1. In-house graphic artist will develop any idea, design or printing need.
2. Film-positive up to 54" x 100"
3. Print on a variety of substrates - metal, plastic, vinyl, and canvas.
4. Pantone® color-matching
5. In house screen expose, stretching and reclaiming.
6. Multiple color automated Separation Processing for indexed, spot color, and stochastic screen half-toning.
7. Large-format, flatbed, micro-enabled automated press
8. Micro adjustment manual press
9. 30' adjustable temperature conveyor oven
10. Full conveyered system, from screening to packaging
11. Wasatch Softrip software

Quality / Lean Manufacturing

We are excited to join the ISO 9001:2008 community! We have been compliant for so long it only seemed natural to go through with our registration in the early 2014.

An electronic copy of our Coastal Manufacturing Business System Manual is available upon request. We believe in providing continuous training within our organization and this allows for a robust and successful in-process inspection program.

Our ISO journey allows us to measure our continuous improvement process and we would be more than happy to share an electronic copy of our Coastal Manufacturing Quality Manual.

A great deal of our continuous improvement is derived from our commitment to the LEAN manufacturing process. LEAN has a great set of tools we have successfully implemented.

Our desire to be the best at low volume / high mix of all types of products enable us to target all non-value added items, set-up, queue, and waste thereby significantly controlling our manufacturing costs.

Whenever possible we work with the customer to break down their quantities to smaller batches in order to get closer to a single piece flow. This means parts are delivered even more quickly!

QUICK FACTS ABOUT QUALITY/LEAN MANUFACTUING:

1. Commitment to LEAN manufacturing
2. ISO 9001:2008 compliant
3. Kaizen, continuous incremental improvement focused
4. Low volume/high mix processes
5. E-document retention
6. Poka-Yoke
7. One piece flow
8. In-process inspection

Creative Concepts

All projects start as an idea or concept and from there they mature into a viable product. This path can be smoothly accomplished when all parties have been able to provide advance thought into the design and manufacturability of the idea.

Coastal Manufacturing has decades of experience in doing just that and would welcome the opportunity to collaborate with you to make the idea become a reality. Regardless of a project's level of complexity, our creative team can work with your initial concept, sketch or dimensioned drawing, and provide you with quality manufacturing ideas that can result in cost savings.

QUICK FACTS ABOUT CREATIVE CONCEPTS:

1. Manufacturing creative designs since 1978
2. Electronic file transfer
3. FTP site available
4. Quick turn prototypes, allowing for design validation
5. Collaboration of design to contain costs
6. Sketch-to-shipment program management

Fulfillment / Kitting / Assembly

Coastal offers several build and shipping options that can be tailored to best suite your needs. Coastal is set apart due to our Order Fulfillment Service. If your business model works best when you give complete focus to product development and marketing, Coastal can play an integral part in that plan by providing warehousing of the finished product then packing and arranging the shipping logistics to get your product to market. This is only one of our build and shipping options.

We also offer:

1. Yearly or long term contracts
2. Single orders
3. Inventory management

FULFILLMENT - KITTING - ASSEMBLY QUICK FACTS:

1. Auto Replenishment -Min/Max inventory level monitoring
2. Spot orders and long term contracts offered
3. Order Fulfillment services
4. Same day or next-day shipping to meet your downstream requirements
5. Kanban
6. Top of the line custom assembly and kits
7. Custom shipping box design
8. International shipping
9. Printing instructions to go with shipment
10. Kitting
11. Customer shipping notification

Stamping

QUICK FACTS ABOUT STAMPING:

1. Run Quantity - medium to high is ideal
2. Advantages - produces very low cost parts
3. Disadvantages - dedicated, specially-manufactured tooling required - design changes expensive

Plastic Fabrication

Custom plastic fabrication combined with Coastal's metal fabrication capabilities allows your designers to be more innovative in developing products. Our capability of incorporating both acrylic and metal in a part or in an assembly can result in a product with enhanced appearance increased functionality and superior durability.

Quick Facts About Plastic Fabrication:

1. Plastic machining
2. Laser cut acrylic for unlimited design characteristics
3. Silk screen
4. Flame polished appearance
5. Laser precision
6. Common uses - Store fixturing, food and beverage, Point of Purchase & Point of Sale