We’ve made a name for ourselves here in Denver, Colorado, as a reliable prototype machine shop serving industries including aerospace, defense, and medical. However, what many of our customers don’t know is that we also do low and even high-volume production work. 

Let’s go ahead and address the elephant in the machine shop: material sourcing in the post-COVID world is hard, and there’s no telling when things will return to “normal.” Want an example? We recently got an order on a Thursday, sent the PO to our material supplier on a Friday, and found out that the material they had quoted us just days ago was gone.

Are your finishing requirements adding unexpected time, cost, and hassle to your precision machining orders?
There are many ways to overengineer a part, and including unnecessarily complex finishing callouts is high on the list. Follow these finishing best practices when designing your next part.

We pride ourselves on being the precision machine shop customers can turn to for their most complex parts, consistently achieving tight tolerance requirements and mastering challenging features and materials that other shops don’t want anything to do with.

There’s a saying we have in the precision machining world when discussing tolerances: Every decimal place adds a zero to the price. Manufacturers know that nine times out of 10, tolerancing is what drives up the cost of a part. And yet, time and again, customers submit over-toleranced part designs that are exceptionally difficult to bring to life on the shop floor.