(EM&C: West Columbia, SC) -- Engineered Metals and Composites Inc. (EM&C) is a premier original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of aluminum towers and small products for the marine industry. From T-tops, hard tops, and towers, to rod holders, leaning posts, rails, and poling platforms, the company provides the quality enhancements and accessories for fishing and pleasure boats.

In order to create these products, EM&C’s craftsmen design and manually shape the towers to fit the boats, which can be a laborious and time-intensive process. For EM&C to maintain its competitive prices, it needed to upgrade its manufacturing process to take advantage of computer modeling technologies that would increase quality and decrease production time.

Solution

EM&C contacted 3DScanCo, a division of Laser Design Inc., about possible solutions to the manufacturing challenges it faced. 3DScanCo consulted with EM&C to incorporate 3-D scanning into its existing manufacturing process—a valuable tool that would accurately capture data before modeling and thus reduce EM&C’s prototyping cycle.

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