Motion Design
Application-specific engineering for hinges, counterbalances, and closure mechanisms designed around your geometry, torque profile, materials, tolerances, performance goals, and target unit cost.
Partner with Mansfield Engineered Components for custom-engineered hinges, counterbalances, closure mechanisms, and motion control components built around your OEM application. From concept development and in-house prototyping to tooling, production, inspection, and delivery, our team helps improve fit, feel, form, function, reliability, and unit economics for complex mechanical motion challenges.
Custom-engineered motion solutions for OEM products that need controlled opening, closing, holding, lifting, or pivoting.
Application-specific engineering for hinges, counterbalances, and closure mechanisms designed around your geometry, torque profile, materials, tolerances, performance goals, and target unit cost.
Concealed, pivot, continuous, four-bar, detent, friction, torque-controlled, and specialty hinges engineered for OEM applications where catalog hardware cannot meet performance or space requirements.
Spring, hydraulic, constant-force, and custom torque-curve counterbalances that offset door, lid, panel, or cover weight for safer, smoother, controlled motion.
Soft-close, damped-motion, lid stay, and drop-down door mechanisms that prevent slamming, control movement, and create a premium tactile user experience.
In-house prototyping and testing to validate torque, motion arc, hold-at-angle behavior, cycle life, corrosion exposure, temperature response, and overall design performance.
Single-source production support including metal stamping, fabrication, spring manufacturing, assembly, inspection, packaging, strategic inventory, and release-based delivery for OEM programs.
Mansfield’s engineering team reviews your product geometry, motion arc, load requirements, environmental exposure, target feel, cycle-life expectations, production volume, and unit cost objectives before recommending a custom motion control approach.
OEM teams choose Mansfield for engineered solutions, responsive support, and dependable production execution.
Every component is designed around your application, not pulled from a standard catalog.
Mansfield ships over 250,000 motion control components every week for OEM programs.
Design, prototyping, tooling, manufacturing, inspection, packaging, and delivery stay under one accountable partner.
The team prioritizes same-day responses, on-time releases, integrity, and long-term customer satisfaction.
Experienced leaders supporting OEM design and production programs.
Mansfield Engineered Components has been solving motion-control and hinge challenges since 1939. What began in Mansfield, Ohio as Mansfield Plating Company evolved through metal stamping, fabrication, design, and assembly into the engineering-focused business it is today. The company remains rooted in the same values of responsiveness, integrity, and practical problem solving while serving OEM customers worldwide. With more than 200 design and manufacturing professionals and membership in the Sabaf Group since 2023, Mansfield combines long-standing domestic manufacturing depth with broader global appliance component expertise. For appliance OEM teams, that means a partner that can help shape concepts, validate prototypes, qualify tooling, and support production with one coordinated team focused on fit, feel, form, and function.
Custom motion control systems and equipment are engineered components that control how a door, lid, panel, cover, or access point opens, closes, holds, lifts, or pivots. At Mansfield Engineered Components, these solutions include custom hinges, counterbalances, lift assists, lid stays, soft-close mechanisms, damped-motion devices, and specialty assemblies built to OEM specifications.
Talk with Mansfield’s engineers about your custom OEM application.
Part of a global appliance component leader.
Established manufacturing heritage since 1939.
250,000+ components shipped every week.
Share your application requirements, drawings, production volume, and performance goals. Mansfield’s engineering and manufacturing team will review your needs and help define the right path from concept through production.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at 419-524-1313. You can also send us a quick email at Dave.Treace@mansfieldec.com.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at 419-524-1313. You can also send us a quick email at Dave.Treace@mansfieldec.com.