Changing industry requirements often means your plant cannot source a prefabricated product. Industries such as automotive, feed and grain, marine and mining need custom fabricated metal transfer carts and totes. Follow this six-step custom fabrication process and learn how Southern Metal Fabrication made to spec indexer carts, multi-purpose carts, repair carts and bumper carts for an automotive manufacturing plant.

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P.O. Box 743
Frazier Rd.
Albertville, AL 35950
(800) 989-1330
www.southernmetalfab.com
CUSTOM FABRICATED
TRANSFER CARTS &
TOTES

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WHY CUSTOM METAL
FABRICATION?
When you need a transfer cart or tote that complies with
shifting industry and plant requirements, you can’t source a
prefabricated product. What you need is custom fabricated
metal carts or totes.

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INDUSTRIES THAT BENEFIT FROM
CUSTOM CARTS & TOTES
Industries that often require custom fabricated metal
transfer carts and totes include:
• Automotive
• Feed & Grain
• Marine
• Mining

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TRANSFER CART & TOTE
FABRICATION PROCESS
Creating custom-fabricated transfer carts and totes follows
a straightforward, six-step process.

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Evaluate a customer’s design or assist in creating a viable
design that meets a customer’s application requirements.
STEP ONE

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STEP TWO
If design work is required, provide design drawings for
customer review prior to fabrication.
Alternatively, produce shop drawings from customer’s
design drawings and present shop drawings for approval.

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STEP THREE
Once drawings are approved, confirm the production
schedule.

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STEP FOUR
Release shop drawings to determine the following
production requirements:
• Fit-up
• Weld-out
• Finishing

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STEP FIVE
Administer in-process quality control (QC) inspections to
ensure that design requirements, industry standards, and
quality expectations are met and maintained.

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Conduct final QC
inspections and prepare for
shipment.
STEP SIX

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AUTOMOTIVE TRANSFER
CARTS
Each industry has its own requirements for transfer carts
and totes. The automotive industry, though, makes ample
use of these items and has constantly shifting requirements
that make custom transfer carts and totes a necessity.

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AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY CARTS
Industry standards and designs change constantly in the
automotive industry, as do the requirements for automotive
transfer carts. When designing an automotive transfer cart,
some of the things to consider include:
• Cart design’s accommodation of part design
• Paint/finishing requirements
• Heavy-duty vs. lightweight
• Durability of casters and/or tongues for towing

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These indexer carts were
designed to accommodate
24 indexer pegs.
• 60” W x 156” L x 67” H
• Carbon steel
• Precision-fixture built
• Wellington casters
• Custom paint job
INDEXER CARTS

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These multi-purpose carts
can be adapted to make
work tables or picking
trolleys.
• 60” W x 156” L x 76” H
• Carbon steel
• Gray enamel paint
MULTI-PURPOSE CARTS

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These repair carts were
designed to hold racks of
repair parts, including
panels, bumpers, and
hoods.
• 20” W x 54” L, 24” H
• Material
• White enamel paint
REPAIR CARTS

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Based on a previous design
we had made, 30 of these
bumper carts were
fabricated in 4 weeks.
• 84” W x 120” L x 70” H
• Carbon steel
• Safety yellow paint
BUMPER CARTS

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
To see more examples of carts and totes we have custom
fabricated, please visit this page on our website.

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THANK YOU!
Southern Metal Fabricators
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