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The process of fabrication includes cutting, shaping and assembling components made from raw materials. Fabrication can be done by manual machines, like bandsaws, or by computer-controlled (CNC) machines. Our shop features both types of fabrication machines, including its CNC Plasma Cutter.

Plasma cutting is usually seen as a more productive way to fabricate metal due to its precise and clean cuts, with no metal chips as residue.

HowStuffWorks.Com explains the history and importance of CNC plasma cutting in fabrication like this: "As with other machine tools, CNC technology was applied to plasma cutting machines in the late 1980s into the 1990's, giving plasma cutting machines greater flexibility to cut diverse shapes "on demand" based on a set of instructions that were programmed into the machine's numerical control. These CNC plasma cutting machines were, however, generally limited to cutting patterns and parts in flat sheets of steel, using only two axes of motion."

Given the nearly endless capabilities of the fabrication equipment located in-house at M.C. Wilson Manufacturing, there's no Fab job too big or too small for us to handle.