Experience, quality, and precision are what you’d come to expect from a facility after 45 years as a leading metals manufacturer. But what really sets Inland Metal apart from other suppliers is our ingenuity, passion and real understanding of our customer’s needs.

Precision Sheet Metal Fabrication

Inland Metal exhibits proven expertise in all areas of fabrication from simple brackets to complex value-added assemblies. With laser cutting, water jet, and turret punching all located in-house, IMI offers customers the best, most cost-efficient manufacturing methods to suit each specific project.

CNC Machining

Inland Metal provides a variety of turning and milling options to meet your machining requirements. Whether machined from billet or flat stock, Inland Metal consistently produces quality, complex parts from Stainless Steel, Aluminum, and PVC Plastic.

Competition and pricing pressure means engineering and design support has never been more critical to your metal fabrication projects. Our support teams play a key role in providing the customer with a product that is both reliable and repeatable, as they solidify the manufacturing process by reducing variation.

Engineering Services:

• Rapid prototype development
  
• Technical print and data package review
  
• Instant feedback to customer’s engineering department
  
• Cost improvement through Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
  
• Complete translation capability of customer’s downloaded 3D data
  
• Easy and convenient access for customer engineering data communications

Supported Software:

• Solid Works 2008
  
• AutoCAD 2004
  
• Pro-E Wildfire
  
• SurfCam Velocity 3-D
  
• CAD key 2000
  

At Inland Metal, quick-turn manufacturing is not just about rapid prototyping. We have developed and implemented a fast-track manufacturing cell that significantly reduces the time to process and manufacture your requirements.

Our Fast-Track System

• Priority quoting
  
• Expedited engineering
  
• Assigned materials
  
• Dedicated equipment
  
• Managed by senior fabrication specialists
  

Inland Metal’s expertise in metal fabrication combined with our vast assembly experience adds value to our customer’s supply chain by greatly reducing cost and lead time.

Assembly Services

• Electromechanical assembly
  
• Systems integration
  
• ESD (Electro Static Discharge) assembly
  
• Procurement & kitting

Testing

• High pot testing
  
• RF (Radio Frequency) testing
  
• ESS (Environmental Stress Screening) & bench testing
  

Inland Metal offers customers a global supply chain solution while still addressing local manufacturing and engineering requirements. This “Smart Sourcing” Strategy provides a flexible solution to the supply chain’s needs.

Smart Sourcing

• Provides advantage of offshore economy of scale as applicable
• Engineering, prototyping, and small to mid-level production based in U.S.
• High volume production manufactured in China
• Reduces supply chain execution risk to the customer
• Gives maximum financial advantage with minimum burden for the customer

Inland Metal has a strong commitment to building a quality product that meets all relevant specs and standards. Our inspection system is in full compliance with Military specification Mil I 45208a. IMI is ISO 9001 compliant, and will be certified by Q4 2010.

Inspection Capabilities

• 1200 square foot inspection room
  
• Full-time Quality Control inspectors on every shift
  
• All inspection & metrology equipment calibrated per Mil
• standard 45662 and traceable to NIST and NBS standards
  Quality Manual available upon request
  

For a PDF copy of Inland Metal’s facilities list which includes Quality Equipment, please click here