Carry each enclosure from flat pattern to powder-coated pallet on one record.

Coils and sheets arrive on pallets, then pass through a laser, a deburring machine, a press brake, a weld bay and a grinding booth before the powder line. One switchgear cabinet can touch six work centres. Each touch needs a record.

So the record follows the nested sheet and the individual part, not only the sales order. Which heat number was a door cut from? Which bend programme ran on the brake? Did the frames return from the coater in RAL 7035? Tell us how your cabinets move from DXF import to packing list, and the record gets built to follow that route.

A buyer emails a STEP model and a PDF drawing for a meter box, a busbar cover or a rack-mount chassis, and asks for fifty. You price from flat blank area, gauge, grade (CR4 mild steel, 304 stainless, 5052 aluminium), laser cut length, bend count, weld metres, powder coat area and carton size. Hinges, PEM studs, gaskets and cam locks are bought in and join the bill of materials.

The programmer nests parts on 2500 by 1250 mm sheets and releases the cut file. Slag and burrs come off at the deburring machine. The press brake operator then loads a bend sequence and selects punch and die. Welders tack and seam the box, grinders blend the corners, and frames travel to the powder line or the zinc plating vendor. On return, the fitter hangs hinges and fixes labels, the inspector checks diagonals and hole pitch with a vernier and a go gauge, and the cabinet is crated for the customer’s dock.