Conventional manufacturing is a way of manufacturing parts of or a product by using manual machining processes. Standard machines, that operate manually, are used as part of the production process and no computer numeric control programming is utilised.
Milling and turning is one of the methods used by the Product Development Technology Station in conventional manufacturing. This is ideal for manufacturing smaller quantities of a product and also when manufacturing large and long scale components. It is more cost effective when manufacturing products for these purposes.
Another example where conventional manufacturing is used, is with frame manufacturing and the main structures of products. Raw material such as sheet metal, mild steel sections or stainless steel sections are used and cut to desired sizes. Bending, rolling, drilling or punching of the material forms part of this process.
Assembly of the different parts of the product follows and this can be done by welding, such as Arc-, MIG-, TIG welding and brazing or fasteners.