OEM Custom Component Fabrication
BUILT TO YOUR SPEC, UNDER ONE ROOF
If your engineering team has the design, we have the capabilities, the equipment, and the people to build it. Lindsay Machine Works partners with OEMs and contract buyers who want to outsource engineered components to a single, capable shop, instead of stitching together three or four vendors to get one part out the door. From raw plate and bar stock to a finished, inspected, and welded assembly, we keep the whole process in Kansas City and under our roof.
Our 25,000 square foot facility runs more than 50 machines, and our team has been building custom components for OEM customers for over 30 years. That means cleaner handoffs, tighter quality control, and shorter lead times on the parts you would otherwise have to coordinate yourself.
What OEM Custom Component Fabrication Means at Lindsay
Custom component fabrication is the process of turning your engineered design into a finished, production-ready part. That can mean a single complex machined housing, a welded steel weldment, a formed and laser-cut enclosure, or a multi-piece assembly that combines machining, fabrication, and finishing.
We build to your specs. You provide the drawings, models, or requirements. We provide the manufacturing engineering, the machine time, the inspection, and the documentation. The result is a component that meets your tolerances, your material callouts, and your delivery date, with one point of contact instead of several.
This is the right fit if you are:
- An OEM scaling up a product and looking for a long-term contract manufacturing partner
- An engineering team outsourcing components that fall outside your in-house capacity
- A buyer consolidating vendors to reduce risk and tighten quality
- Teams requiring pre-production samples and pilot runs before committing to full-scale tooling.
Why Buyers Outsource Engineered Components to Lindsay
Outsourcing a custom component is a leap of faith. The shop you choose has to read your prints correctly, hit tolerances the first time, and communicate clearly when something needs to change. Here is what makes that work at Lindsay.
One shop, full process control
Most custom components touch more than one process. Ours can handle nearly all of them in-house, which keeps parts off freight trucks and inside our quality system. A typical component might be plasma cut on our 5 by 10 foot table, formed on a CNC press brake, machined on a 5-axis milling center, welded with TIG, ground to finish, and inspected with our AV350 vision and probe system, all without leaving the building.
Engineering input when you want it
If your print is final, we build to it. If you want a second set of eyes, our manufacturing engineers will flag features that are expensive to produce, suggest tolerance relief where it does not affect function, and offer material or process alternatives. The choice is yours, and the input is free.
Quality you can document
Every job moves through our ontrolled inspection area. We can provide inspection reports, in-process inspection records, and material certifications when needed. For repeat work, we lock in fixtures, programs, and inspection plans so part two looks exactly like part one.
Capabilities
The table below summarizes the materials and processes we run regularly. If your component combines several of these, that is a good sign you are talking to the right shop.
| Process | Capability and Range |
|---|---|
| 5-axis CNC milling | Vertical milling up to 32 by 120 inches |
| 4-axis CNC milling | Open and enclosed vertical mills |
| 5-axis CNC turning | Live tooling and sub spindle, up to 26 inch OD by 80 inches long |
| Manual milling | Bridgeport-type, radial drill, horizontal boring mill with CNC retrofit |
| Manual turning | Engine lathes up to 39 inch OD and 240 inches long, vertical turning up to 57 inch OD |
| Fiber laser cutting | Up to 5 by 10 foot table |
| Waterjet cutting | Up to 5 by 10 foot table, 4 inch steel, 6 inch aluminum |
| CNC plasma cutting | Up to 5 by 10 foot table, 4-axis for square and round tubing |
| Gundrilling | Up to 1 inch OD by 40 inch max hole depth |
| CNC press brake | Up to 1/8 inch thick |
| CNC punch press | Up to 1/8 inch thick |
| Press brake | 3/8 inch thick up to 10 feet wide |
| Plate roller | 3/8 inch thick up to 6.5 feet wide |
| Angle and tube roller | Rings of tubing, round stock, or angle |
| Welding | GMAW, GTAW, SMAW |
| 55 ton press | Press operations and assembly |
| Edge rounding, polishing, tube bending, notching | Finishing operations |
| Reverse engineering | Solidworks and MasterCAM |
Industries We Serve
We are set up to build custom components for industries where downtime, safety, and tolerance control all matter. Customers come to us from:
Custom Component Project Process
We try to keep the process simple, even when the parts are not.
- 1
Submit Design Specs
- 2
Receive a Quote
- 3
Build Planning
- 4
Fabrication & Inspection
- 5
Delivery & Documentation
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for OEM Custom Components
Request a Quote or Contact Us About Your Project Today
(816) 257-1166
If you have engineered components that need a capable, communicative manufacturing partner, we want to take a look. Send us your prints and quantities, and we will come back with a quote, a lead time, and any questions, fast.
