Assembly & Value-Added Services
Sheet metal assembly fastens formed parts, hardware, and purchased components into one unit in a set order, then labels and packs it. K-Display assembles enclosures, door subassemblies, and carts in Chicago from your drawing and bill of material, and kits racks and panel sets by packing the parts of each unit together.
What sheet metal assembly does to loose parts
Assembly joins steel, stainless steel, and aluminum parts, bare or powder coated, with their hardware and purchased components, one fastener at a time in a set order, until the unit closes and mounts. It leaves built, or as the parts of one unit packed together.
Hardware installation presses self-clinching nuts and studs, which lock into the sheet without a nut behind it, before the coat, and fits hinges, latches, and handles after the cure.
A set of parts leaves as the left drawing shows, with the cover and its four screws loose beside the enclosure body; a built unit leaves as the right drawing shows, closed, with its label on the front.
Parts we assemble, label, and pack
Assembly suits units that leave joined, labeled, and packed, and racks and panel sets that leave as parts for one unit. Choose hardware installation when the job is a panel that needs its nuts, studs, hinges, or latches and goes no further.
- Knocked-down racks with their bolts and connection hardware kitted, so a bay goes together at your plant.
- Machine panel sets labeled by machine, so each machine's covers arrive together.
- Rolling carts assembled with the casters on the frame, so the cart rolls on arrival.
- Door subassemblies marked left or right, so the two sides are not mixed at your line.
- Materials
- Carbon steel, Galvanized steel, Galvanneal, Stainless steel, Aluminum
From loose parts to a packed unit
We cover the caster holes and threads before the powder coat, so the cured frame takes its casters with no film in the hole and none on the wheel.
Gather the parts
We collect the formed parts, hardware, and purchased components for one unit at the revision on your drawing.
Fasten the joints
We fasten the parts to each other one joint at a time and fit a cart's casters to its frame.
Mark and label
We mark each closed unit left or right and label its carton with the part number on your drawing.
Pack
We pack each unit built, or the parts and bolts of one unit together in a carton.
Design for assembly
A screw behind a flange, the bent-up edge of a panel, or behind a mating panel cannot be reached with a driver once the unit is closed, so it cannot be tightened at the build or removed in service. We drive every fastener from the one side the drawing leaves open.
A bracket bolted inside a box has to go in before the cover closes over it, so the order the parts join is set by which fastener the next part would bury. Where the drawing gives an order we follow it, and where it gives none we join the parts in the order that leaves every fastener reachable.
A kit that is one bolt short stops the first unit at your line. We pack each unit's parts, bolts, and fittings to the count on the bill of material.
Four screws pass through the cover holes into four corner tabs, so a driver reaches every head from above. The cover comes off without moving anything around it.
What to send for an assembly quote
- Top-level model and bill of material
- Part numbers, quantities, and the revision of each part, with customer-supplied components marked.
- Fastening order
- Fastener sequence and the torque for each critical fastener.
- Carton labels
- The part number for each carton and the left or right mark each unit carries.
- Delivered state
- Units that ship built, sets that ship as loose parts, and the contents of each set.
- Packaging
- Carton, protection, and count per carton.
- Quantities and timing
- Order quantity, delivery date, and arrival date of supplied components.