Automation Equipment Customized CNC Parts

A purchasing manager comparing quotes for a brass valve stem sees a 40% price spread between two suppliers. Both say they run CNC lathes. The real difference is usually not the machine. It is the bra...

A pump housing has to resist internal pressure, seal against a cover plate, and pilot onto a motor shaft with a clearance of a few hundredths of a millimetre. If machined entirely from solid, the par...

An engineer once sent us a drawing for an aluminum shaft. The shaft had a diameter of 12 mm, a tolerance of plus/minus 0.01 mm, and a surface finish requirement of 0.8 micron Ra. The part was designe...