Contract Manufacturing & OEM
OEM-grade builds — yours, ours, or somewhere between.
The shop floor, in detail.
Edwards is your contract OEM (original equipment manager). We manufacture to your print, your customer's print, or partner with you on a co-developed design — then own that part on your bill of materials for as long as you build it. This is the standing-program side of the shop: release schedules, held inventory, drop-ship. For one-off and overflow work, see the job shop.
- Capabilities Standard / On request
- 01 Reverse engineering from samples or legacy drawings
- 02 Inventory and JIT (just-in-time) release programs
- 03 Drop-ship to your customer with your branding
- 04 Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) on agreed SKUs
- 05 Long-term price agreements with steel hedging
How a job moves through this cell.
- 01
Discovery — application, volume, regulatory needs
- 02
Engineering — DFM review, prototyping, FAI
- 03
Tooling — fixtures, dies, CMM programs
- 04
Production — release schedules, drop-ship, VMI
Other capabilities under our roof.
- Laser Cutting Two CNC lasers, sheet and plate, cutting five days a week.
- Steel Fabrication Saw, brake, punch and weld — under one Birmingham roof.
- Powder Coating Industrial-grade durable finish, color-matched to your brand.
- Assembly Kitted, built and boxed — so you order a product, not a pile of parts.
- Job Shop Send us the part your shop can't run. We'll estimate it.
- Design & Engineering From sketch to spec sheet — we draw your machine before we build it.
Tell us what you need contract manufacturing & oem for.
From a one-piece prototype to a multi-year production program — same shop floor, same quote process. Most orders turn around in about a week, because nothing gets sent out the back door.