Instruments, Sensors & Test Equipment
Housings, enclosures, and mounts for instruments that go into the field and onto the bench.
Instrument and sensor teams use MASA FabWorks for machined probe bodies and sensor housings, molded field enclosures and handheld meter housings, sheet-metal instrument chassis, mounting brackets, and test fixtures. Product lines like these run many variants at low volume, so there is no minimum order, and each variant keeps its own file and numbers for every reorder.
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Processes
±0.025 mm / 0.001 in
Tolerance to
Al / 316 / PC
Core materials
None
Minimum order
Built around how instrument teams buy parts
Many variants, low volumes
A sensor family can mean dozens of housings, probe lengths, and mounts, each needed in small numbers. There is no minimum order, and a reorder of any variant runs from the same file to the same numbers, with watching for drift on us.
Enclosures for the field
Gasket grooves, sealed cable entries, corrosion-resistant 316 stainless and anodized aluminum, and UV-stable resins, built to your drawing. The sealing rating of the finished instrument is set and tested by your team.
A second source alongside your current manufacturer
If a manufacturer already builds your instrument, we can take the parts it does not, like mounts, fixtures, and new housings, or run alongside it as a second source. Every part is inspected against your drawing, with the report posted to your project.
Fixtures for test and calibration
Printed and machined nests, clamps, and calibration fixtures for your test stations, made from the same CAD as the product, so a new sensor revision gets matching fixtures without a separate vendor.
Instruments, Sensors & Test Equipment parts, by process
Representative parts we manufacture for this industry. Every part is quoted to your drawings and materials.
CNC Machining
Turning and milling give probe bodies, threaded process fittings, and sensor housings with O-ring grooves and tight bores, in stainless steel and aluminum.
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Sensor probe body
Turned 316 stainless, threaded fitting
Sensor housing
Machined aluminum, O-ring groove
Injection Molding
Molding produces field enclosures with gasket channels and handheld meter housings with bosses and ribs, in UV-stable polycarbonate and PC/ABS.
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Field sensor enclosure
Molded UV-stable PC, gasketed lid
Handheld meter housing
Molded PC/ABS, two-shell
Sheet Metal Fabrication
Fabrication delivers benchtop instrument chassis, front panels, and stainless field mounts.
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Benchtop instrument chassis
Folded aluminum, front panel
Field sensor mount
Bent 316 stainless, pole clamp
3D Printing
Additive turns around test and calibration fixtures, nests, and early housing prototypes with no tooling.
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Test fixture
SLS nylon nest with locating pins
Where we help most
Common material grades
Metals
- 6061-T6 aluminum
- 316 stainless
- 304 stainless
Plastics
- UV-stable PC
- PC/ABS
- POM
Additive
- SLS PA12
- SLA resin
Standards & responsibility
ISO 9001 quality systems are held by the manufacturing facilities. FabWorks supplies custom components; instrument performance, calibration, ingress ratings, and product approvals remain owned by your team.
Related technical guides
Design-for-manufacturability guides and references most relevant to instruments, sensors & test equipment parts.
Designing for CNC Machining: A DFM Guide
The design rules that matter most for CNC milling and turning, with the numbers we use and why: walls, radii, pockets, holes, tolerances, and finish.
Read the guideDesigning for Injection Molding: A DFM Guide
Wall thickness, draft, ribs and bosses, undercuts, gates, and tolerances for injection-molded parts, keyed to resin, with the numbers we use.
Read the guideDesigning for Sheet Metal Fabrication: A DFM Guide
Bend radius, flange length, hole placement, K-factor, cut methods, and tolerances for sheet metal parts, with the numbers we use, keyed to material thickness.
Read the guideMaterials Selection Reference: Alloys and Resins
The metal and plastic families we work in, the properties that separate them, and how to narrow from a family to a grade that both performs and manufactures cleanly.
Read the guideMetrology and Inspection: How Parts Are Verified
The inspection workflow, the measurement equipment (CMM, optical, roughness, hardness, XRF), how to choose an inspection level, and the documentation you can receive.
Read the guideStart a instruments, sensors & test equipment project
Upload your files. We measure your model against per-process, per-material rules and send a DFM review before you commit to a quote.