{"id":13,"date":"2012-06-27T18:18:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T18:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simcobox.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2017-02-18T13:26:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T18:26:31","slug":"custom-enclosures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/custom-enclosures\/","title":{"rendered":"Machining and Printing Services for Custom Enclosures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/injection-molding-technique-saves-time\/\">Injection Molding<\/a> Company takes their enclosures to the next level; they do custom machining and printing to precision specifications, all in-house. Other customization options are also available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/\" rel='nofollow' >SIMCO<\/a> combines machining services with design expertise. Customers can send in a sample circuit board, and SIMCO will fit the enclosure to the functions needed. If the customer already has a design, they can send in a drawing in most formats, including dwg, dxf, iges, pdf, jpg, bmp and vector.<\/p>\n<p>SIMCO uses a Fryer VB-40 Vertical Machining Center to achieve tolerances as tight as 0.005&#8243;. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/\" rel='nofollow' >plastic enclosures<\/a> and panels are easily machined or drilled to create openings for switches, connectors, displays, etc. The typical lead-time is just four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>SIMCO can also pad print logos and labels on their enclosures. They have a wide variety of ink colors available. For custom printing, artwork should be sent in pdf, jpg, bmp or Photoshop format. The artwork should be in a 1:1 format. The drawing should indicate position of the art on the case. The better the quality of the file the better end product the customer will receive.<\/p>\n<p>Some SIMCO plastic enclosures can be custom molded using our patented &#8220;insert&#8221; technique to mold openings and assembly requirements where needed. A special low cost mold can be constructed to your specifications for inexpensive custom end panels.<\/p>\n<p>SIMCO&#8217;s custom enclosures have been used for a variety of applications, including weather radios, oscilloscopes, USB devices and telephone switches. Almost any electronic device can be housed in a SIMCO enclosure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/injection-molding-technique-saves-time\/\">Injection Molding<\/a> Company takes their enclosures to the next level; they do custom machining and printing to precision specifications, all in-house. Other customization options are also available. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/\" rel='nofollow' >SIMCO<\/a> combines machining services with design expertise. Customers can send in a sample circuit board, and SIMCO will fit the enclosure to the functions needed. If the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}