Preserved Shop Record: santourian.com The preserved pages of santourian.com describe a precision sheet metal fabrication and CNC machine shop operating in Oceanside, California, within San Diego County. The record identifies the company as Santourian Manufacturing Inc., abbreviated SMI, and states that it has been a full service certified welding shop since 1981. The shop describes itself as a build to print manufacturer serving OEM and industrial sectors. Its stated capabilities include precision sheet metal fabrication, stamping, forming, machining, assembly, welding, and turnkey work. The preserved language emphasizes productivity through technology, customer satisfaction, and the ability to produce close to customers in the Southwestern United States. The heritage pages list a range of equipment and process controls. The shop notes that it doubled capacity and made twin turret pres
ses available. It references two large Wiedemann 40 station turret punch presses. It also references three 10,000 rpm Haas vertical machining centers. A new innovative punching cell is described as providing automatic loading and unloading of material. The shop floor control system is described as real time, allowing a customer to see whether a job is done without walking down the hall. The preserved pages also mention solid modeling capability, CAD control, and cyber manufacturing. The navigation categories include CAD, control, punching, machining, forming, engraving, assembly, quality, employment, company, e mail, map, and links. The process language in the preserved record is specific to precision sheet metal fabrication. The shop describes manufacturing the highest quality precision sheet metal fabrications, sheet metal fabrication and stampings, CNC machined parts, metal forming, and full service certified welding. It specializes in steel and aluminum fabrication, build per print items such as assemblies, chassis, weldments, frames, ruggedized enclosures, heat sinks, and bus bars. The record also states that the shop handles prototype or high production metal fabrication. The materials list includes sheet, bar, plate, and structural materials. Aluminum is listed in 2000, 5000, 6000, and 7000 series. Red metals include brass, bronze, and copper. Low and high carbon steels include CRS, HRS, CD, CF, and structural. Exotic alloys include Inconel, Monel, 4130, 4140, and titanium. Stainless steel includes chromium nickel 301, 303, 304, and 316, as well as chromium 410 and 440. Plastics include ABS, Acetal, Delrin, HDPE, G Classes, Lexan, and Nylon. The preserved pages also discuss tolerances for manufacturing. Fifty years ago, build to order sheet metal tolerances were plus or minus .06 inch, or 1.5 mm, primarily due to the accuracy of the equipment. Today, normal production tolerances are around 10 percent of that. The article discusses tolerance ranges that are reasonable or practical. If tighter tolerances are needed, they can be achieved with dedicated tooling and special processing. The most significant improvement has been in the machinery. Some modern high speed equipment can position within .0028 inch, or .07 mm, and repeat within .002 inch, or .05 mm. Materials and methods continue to play a role in the limits of precision. They greatly influence practical considerations for tolerances between holes, hole to hole, between folds, fold to fold, and so forth. The preserved record also lists welding services and standards. Certified welding services are listed as MIL STD 2219, MIL STD 1595, AWS D1.1, AWS D1.2, AWS D1.3, and AWS D1.6. The shop is described as ISO 9000 compliant. The record also notes registration with the DDTC and RoHS compliance. The shop describes CNC milling as 4 axis, high speed, drilling and tapping, 10,000 rpm. The record mentions a manufacturing facility of two buildings. It also references an achievement award from General Atomic Aeronautical, recognized for 100 percent quality and 100 percent on time delivery three years in a row. The preserved pages include a family history reference to Apollo 11. The shop record describes delivery of metal fabrications and CNC machining as delivering the right mixture of turn around time. It also states that the shop uses technology hand in hand with customers to compete and win in a global economy. The preserved pages mention solving problems together and comparing solid modeling capability. The record also notes that no matter whether a customer is in Tokyo or Toledo, the shop can produce product close to customers in the Southwestern US. The service area is listed as San Diego County, Orange County, Los Angeles, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and the Southwest area. The preserved pages include a note that the former plant is not quoting from this domain. That note is consistent with the record being a preserved shop record rather than an active quotation source. The target topic is precision sheet metal fabrication. The preserved process language remains centered on build to print manufacturing, sheet metal fabrication, stamping, forming, machining, assembly, welding, and turnkey work. The shop describes its professional and experienced staff as an advantage. It describes consistent CNC manufacturing performance and award winning highest quality industrial products delivered on time. The record also lists engineering, CAD design services, assembly integration, and job shop tracking. In plain terms, the preserved santourian.com record documents a precision sheet metal fabrication shop with CNC machining, stamping, forming, welding, assembly, and CAD capabilities. Its process language covers materials from aluminum and stainless steel to red metals, carbon steels, exotic alloys, and plastics. It covers equipment such as turret punch presses, vertical machining centers, and an automatic punching cell. It covers tolerances, hole to hole and fold to fold relationships, and the practical limits imposed by materials and methods. It covers welding standards, quality recognition, on time delivery, and real time shop floor control. The record stays inside the shop's own vocabulary: build to print, turnkey, chassis, weldments, frames, ruggedized enclosures, heat sinks, bus bars, prototype or high production, and precision sheet metal fabrication.
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