Better castings come from the industry’s top patterns and engineering. Our skilled pattern shop personnel deliver successful castings by combining the patterns we purchase with the casting designs we engineer. Our know-how and expertise in this process means successful castings the first time – delivered on time. Our team knows that understanding every detail of the finished product serves a critical purpose in meeting its requirements. Thorough research and knowledge of the details of a casting begin at the earliest stages of our process.
Because we take immense pride in our finished products, we only partner with top pattern vendors who demonstrate our same level of commitment. Our pattern shop team works closely with our engineers, adding the rigging and gating. We finish each pattern into an excellent tooling solution, ensuring that our foundry accurately and efficiently takes the next steps toward creating castings that best meet your needs.
All of our pattern shop team members know their decisions and their work quality determines how well the tooling will perform in our foundry, which, in turn, ultimately determines how well the finished products perform for our customers. And complex geometries are no problem for Omaha Steel. For world-class castings, sprues, runners, ingates, and risers must be properly constructed, and chill positioning must be perfect during the manufacturing process. Count on Omaha Steel for designing and building tooling solutions that yield superior castings, regardless of complexity.
Omaha Steel maintains, refurbishes, and repairs your existing patterns in-house. The condition of your existing pattern is critical to producing quality castings. We inspect your tooling both before and after each production run, performing maintenance as soon as it is needed. Well-maintained tooling means we produce the best castings possible for your current order and respond quickly in meeting future casting orders.
Even for tooling built and run elsewhere, you can depend on Omaha Steel to handle transferred patterns. We can convert any style of tooling to run on our equipment. And we gladly restore or repair any existing patterns you may have, bringing them back into usable condition.
Your tooling is an investment, and we go to great lengths to ensure proper storage of them. We keep all of your patterns on-site in a dedicated 30,000-square-foot building. Tooling storage is well organized, and every record gets maintained and backed up electronically. We can locate, retrieve, and produce castings using your patterns at any time via company name, part name, or part number.
Omaha Steel also helps you upgrade or replace your obsolete patterns. For keeping costs in check, we can even use partial patterns by expertly replacing the missing portions.
Need reverse engineering but don’t have any existing data? No problem. We will develop new drawings and CAD files for your approval. You’ll also have the opportunity for making changes or improvements before new pattern construction.
Throughout the design and pattern construction process, we can use your existing CAD data, ensuring the finished castings match your design expectations. Omaha Steel utilizes SOLIDWORKS® CAD software, but we can accept many different file types.
When you want a complete casting solution, turn to Omaha Steel. We have your pattern for success.
