Business and Services Provided by Helgesen Helgesen Industries, Inc. provides value-added, turnkey contract manufacturing services for the emerging and original equipment manufacturers marketplace. Services include advanced manufacturing engineering, responsive materials management and technologically-advanced, flexible, service-oriented manufacturing of complex weldment assemblies into partial or finished product. OEMs use Helgesen’s assemblies in a wide range of applications including telecommunications, construction machinery, industrial automation and control equipment, military, and medical industries.

Business Strategy Helgesen’s strategy is to identify and develop strong, long term alliances with market leading OEMs of complex, leading edge products which require flexible, value-added manufacturing services. Helgesen has invested in the capabilities to apply technologically-advanced manufacturing and related services for the shorter, moderate-volume, and high volume production runs that are typically required in the OEMs rapidly changing markets.

Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Helgesen provides its OEM partners with advanced manufacturing engineering services during the design and implementation of new and upgraded products, as well as throughout the manufacturing process. Helgesen’s engineering services are designed to ensure that OEM products are rapidly brought to market to meet the market’s expectations for economics and quality. Helgesen’s advanced manufacturing engineers work closely with an OEM’s product designers and commodity management professionals at the early design stage in order to optimize the fabrication design in terms of manufacturability and product reliability. They also participate in the OEM’s parts selection and material utilization decisions at the design stage in order to mitigate component availability issues which might arise during the manufacturing cycle. Helgesen’s engineers evaluate the ongoing manufacturing process and recommend improvements to reduce manufacturing costs or lead times, or increase the quality of finished assemblies.