While Beta Shim’s manufacturing capabilities have greatly expanded over the years, our expertise and experience in the field of metal stamping and punching is unparalleled. In addition to the newer CNC methods of metal stamping, Beta maintains a large staff of experienced engineers and press operators to ensure any custom job can be handled by our shop. CNC methods are great for high efficiency and large quantity runs, but any seasoned engineer will agree that craftsmanship is king.
Nothing can beat the touch of a veteran punch press operator for precious metal, small run, or high precision parts. Our engineers, press operators, and tooling experts have over two decades of experience manufacturing for the highly demand standard ...
While CNC machining techniques are nothing new at Beta Shim, CNC turning was the first CNC specialty Beta Shim pursued to modernize its shop. We have more experience in CNC turning jobs than any other specialty, and a wide variety of MAZAK CNC lather to fulfill the job requirements of any project. Our CAD capabilities are unmatched; we fully support AUTOCAD, Master Cam, Feature CAM, Bob CAD-CAM, Solid Works, and CATIA. Seamless integration ensures your engineers can use the system best suited to their design task. Let us worry about pushing the product from paper to reality.
Good machines make good parts: A very simple concept that we take seriously. All our Mazak lathes are purchased directly through Mazak and not third party ...
Beta Shim’s Milling capabilities receive the same close attention to detail as our Turning and Punching services. Our outfit of FADAL machining centers are outfitted to run any job imaginable. In addition, our expert technicians and programmers maintain interoperability between hardware and software unmatched by competitors. We will have your part program loaded in memory and milling before you can say “Beta Shim”. To aide in programming the FADAL equipment, we utilize AUTOCAD, MasterCam, FeatureCAM, BobCAD, Solid Works, and CATIA. Beta Shim also strives to serve a wide scale of production quantities. To this end we are constantly acquiring new machining centers to augment our already substantial capacity.
Laminated material is produced by surface-bonding individual layers of 0.002 or 0.003 inch precision metal foil into sheets whose total thickness can range from 0.006 to whatever thickness is required. These materials are fabricated in 48 inch long sheets, in widths from 8 to 24 inches wide, depending on the material involved. The bonding material (0.0003-inch maximum) between the layers of metal is so secure that the shim looks and behaves like solid metal.
In use, the laminations are simply peeled off with a knife blade, one at a time, right on the assembly line. With a minimum of experience, an assembler becomes adept at removing individual laminations as required.
