Quality, On Time Delivery, Unmatched Customer Service, Best Overall Value

SALES:
Inside/Outside
Contacts; Glenn Heard, Cortney Waggoner,
For quotations, technical inquiries, order placement, order status, expediting, change orders, value engineering.

VALUE ENGINEERING:
We offer assistance in designing manufacturable components that meet our customer's needs at the lowest possible cost and best overall value. IMC has a Mechanical Engineer on staff.

INTERNET:
IMC has E-mail capabilities; our address is mailto:sales@imcmetals.com. We receive CAD files for quotation and fabrication on a regular basis as well as various correspondences from our customers and vendors.

CAD-CAM:
We utilize two CAD-CAM programs for importing design and programming solidworks is utilized for importing files, modifying files, and 3-D design work. Fabriwin is utilized for importing, and programming our CNC punch. We can import CADL, IGES, DXF, SAT Solids, STEP and AUTOCAD DWG Files. IMC is capable of producing SOLID MODELS and generating color prints.

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SHEARING:
Our in-house shear can cut up to.156 thick steel, 52" long. The back gage has a 25' capacity and holds +/- .010.

LASER CUTTING:
Amanda Pulsar 2000 watts

PUNCHING:
Our Strippit CNC punches are made in the USA and have proven to be extremely reliable. The maximum hole size is 3.500 diameter. The maximum thickness is .187. The maximum blank size without reposition is 60.0 X 50.0. Tonnage is 23 tons, Hole to hole tolerance is +/- .004. Maximum holes per minute are 550. The turret holds 28 tools and has three auto index station.

FIRST ARTICLE REPORTS:
A first article report will be generated and shipped with the part that has been inspected when requested by the customer.

TEMPLATES:
IMC does a 100% Inspection on all new and revised parts and makes a template for future reference. On repeat jobs we do a 100% inspection on the material and all hole sizes and a template overlay. All measurements are documented on a QA. Set-up sheet and approved by management prior to punching the order.

GRAINING:
Our "Time Saver" graining machine has a 36" wide by 4" vertical capacity. We stock abrasive belts ranging from 80 to 180 grit.

FORMING:
IMC has four CNC press brakes. We can form parts up to 96" long. The maximum tonnage is 88 tons. All of our tooling is precision ground to +/-.0008, and is heat-treated to Rockwell 50. Our machines can hold as close as +/- ½ degree on angles and +/- .010 on bends. All production programs are stored in the machines computer for future runs. Individual part parameters are also documented on machine set-up sheets, this assures that we form the parts the same way each run. We know that consistency equals quality. The set-up sheets also reduce set-up time and help train other operators.

WELDING:
We have three Miller Syncrowave 250 amp Tig Welder and three Ultra-Flex 350 Pulse Mig Welder for welding aluminum, steel, and stainless steel. Our 3 welders have over 25 years of experience. We have in-house design and fabrication capabilities for any fixtures that might be required.

SPOT WELDING:
We have a 100 KVA 3 Phase SCIAKY Spot Welder with Digital Controller capable of doing Certified Spot Welds, and a 20 KVA Spot welder. We can provide cosmetic welds or high strength welds as required. If requested by the customer we will perform destructive tests, and provide test coupons for evaluation.

WELD FINISHING:
Often times our customers don't get to see the high quality welds we do, because they are finished to match near by bends. We take pride in the weld finishing we do at IMC. We have several highly skilled finishers that do such a good job, you would think the joint was formed or molded. We are currently shipping several hundred welded and finished parts per month.

HARDWARE INSERTION:
IMC has four Heager Presses for installing fasteners, one with an Auto-Feed Unit for high volume jobs. Both have digital batch counters that count the number of fasteners installed, and "beep" when the correct number has been installed. They also count the number of parts completed. We pull hardware kits as soon as the parts are punched to insure that the hardware is in stock and reserved for that job. IMC also uses hardware set-up sheets to insure that we install the hardware with the same tooling, same pressure, and same sequence each time.

MACHINING:
This is a new growth area for IMC. We have employees with machining experience and have recently purchase a vertical knee mill with power feed and digital readout, an ACCRA 12 x 36 Bench Lathe, and a Kent SGS 1020AHD Fully Automated Surface Grinder so that we can utilize this experience and better serve our customer base.

PLATING:
IMC has no short term plans to do plating in-house. We are all very aware of the environmental concerns associated with plating. We subcontract plating out on a daily basis as a service to our customers and plan to continue doing this unless we begin to have difficulty with pricing, turnaround, or quality.

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PAINTING:
IMC currently subcontracts all liquid painting.

POWDER COATING:
IMC currently subcontracts all of our powder coating out. We have researched getting into powder coating within the next few years as it is environmentally friendly and IMC is doing a high volume of powder-coated parts.

SILK-SCREEN:
IMC has been doing silk-screening even before we had a shop. We currently have three silk-screen stations and silk-screen over 10,000 parts per month. We also have in house silk-screen burning capabilities and limited capabilities for generating Artwork. We can do very detailed multi-colored parts.

ADDED VALUE ASSEMBLY:
This is also a target growth area for IMC. Some examples of added value assembly on customer parts include machined parts, soldering, fasteners, plastic components, specialty fasteners, insulators, Velcro, ground cables, EMI. gaskets, card guides, rubber feet, decals, connectors, wire ties, etc. IMC has the experience and resources to manage all of the above for our customers. We can reduce a Bill of Material that had 10 part numbers for a buyer to purchase and manage, to one part number.

EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE:
All of IMC equipment is maintained per manufacture's specifications on a monthly basis, maintenance is recorded in a logbook. Since our team consists of several highly skilled mechanics most repairs are done immediately in-house.

MEASURING TOOLS/SPC.:
All inspection tools are cleaned, calibrated, and certified by Mobile Precision every six months. Records are traceable to the NBS. IMC can provide SPC. Printouts generated by our Mitutoyo DP1-HS that include X Bar and R Charts, bell curves and Cpk when requested by the customer.

QUALITY ASSURANCE:
We have listened to our customers over the years and have developed a quality system that meets our customer's needs, complies with ISO 9002 standards and is usable by our employees and vendors. In order to achieve this we hired an expert in implementing quality systems in high technology companies. Chris Dillon has taken our goals, vision, customer expectations, and integrated them with today's advanced quality systems. We currently have a living quality manual that grows with our company. All of our employees have been trained on how to use our quality manual and quality systems. We have procedures, work instructions, and document control guidelines that allow us to maintain a 99% plus quality percentage. We believe that consistent quality is the one thing that will set us apart form the competition. We will continue to invest in state of the art quality systems, the best people available in our industry, and training our employees to be the best in the industry.

PACKAGING:
We go the extra mile in packaging parts for shipment. We feel that more is better. It doesn't make much sense to manufacture class "A" cosmetic parts that are within +/- .010 tolerance for our customers and have them arrive damaged during transit. If our customers have special needs such as "kits" or need help with packaging engineering, we are ready to provide assistance as required.

SHIPPING:
If the quality assurance buy-offs are not up to specification or if the cosmetics are questionable, shipping can and will stop the shipment. If all is not to IMC/customer specification, the product will not ship. If cosmetics are subjective our shipping dept. will send a sample to the customer for approval. When considering the total number of invoices and shipments we do on a monthly basis the number of errors is less than .005%.

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