Custom manufacturing vs materials processing: what's the difference? Custom manufacturing produces a finished or near finished part built to a specific design, like a machined bracket or a formed sheet metal enclosure ready for assembly. Materials processing is an earlier, more general step: turning raw material into a usable form, such as rolling steel into sheets or extruding aluminum into bar stock, without necessarily shaping it into a final part. Materials processing prepares the raw input, custom manufacturing turns that input into the actual product a customer ordered.
A typical supply chain includes both: raw material gets processed into stock first, then a custom manufacturer machines or forms that stock into the finished part. Entag's partners work on the custom manufacturing side, taking standard stock material and producing the specific part a customer designed.
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