Electronic enclosures: how to reduce the impact on your budget

We support you in choosing the right technology for your requirements and assist you throughout design and customisation, assessing feasibility and indicating any changes needed to the concept or the machining operations you have in mind for your project.

This is why, for more than ten years, El.italia has been selecting manufacturers in this field that are able to offer multiple solutions, with these objectives:

• Making your project feasible with every available technology
• Meeting your target price as closely as possible, when the best-known brands become expensive or hard to source
• Acting as a single point of contact for the entire BOM, thanks to a network of more than 100 manufacturers covering every component category (discover the Next Gen Distribution service, internal link: /en/services/next-gen-distribution/)

When it comes to enclosures for industrial electronics, medical devices, the aesthetics sector and the service industry, this scouting activity has led to official distribution agreements with LTP and Fischer Elektronik, alongside other manufacturers selected for off-the-shelf moulded enclosures and metal fabrication.

Even before the manufacturer, what drives the budget is the process used to produce the enclosure. There are five options:

• custom tooling: high upfront investment, pays for itself at high volumes
• custom plastic fabrication: no tooling, high quality, ideal for small batches
• custom metal fabrication: aluminium, sheet metal or steel, no tooling costs, for small to medium batches
• preconfigured plastic or metal profiles: extruded profiles and end panels, good quality with minimum investment
• off-the-shelf moulded enclosures: low budget, standard solution, suited to medium to high volumes

LTP manufactures plastic enclosures, covers and parts using a proprietary sheet-bending technology, a process similar to metal fabrication that makes it possible to design without moulds or dedicated tooling.

It is the most efficient solution for small and medium production runs, where tooling costs cannot be amortised. All production stages are carried out in-house and are ISO 9001 certified. El.italia is the official and exclusive distributor for Italy.

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Fischer Elektronik manufactures aluminium enclosures, heat sinks and connectors for the electrical and electronics industry, with around 400 employees and 72 countries served. More than 75,000 standard items are available from stock, and the plant can meet almost any requirement in terms of dimensions and surface finish. El.italia is the official distributor for Italy.

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El.italia's aim is not to offer a cheaper alternative at any cost: it is to provide a qualified second source, able to pass the qualification process and to deliver a tangible advantage over the benchmark brands.

Key advantages:

• Price ★★★★☆ lower costs at the same quality level
• Certifications ★★★★☆ ISO 9001 certified production at LTP, controlled quality standards across the Fischer Elektronik range
• MOQ ★★★★★ tooling-free processes remove minimum order quantities
• Customisation ★★★★★ holes, screen printing, painting, anodising and fixing inserts to drawing
• Lead times ★★★★☆ European production and standard items available from stock

If these alternative enclosure solutions are of interest, try the Next Gen Distribution service: one point of contact and one order for every component on your bill of materials. The customer sends the BOM, El.italia returns a quotation optimised for technical, regulatory, logistics and budget requirements.

For enclosures and for every component on your BOM, contact us with the drawing or the part number you are looking for.

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