Case Studies
Jobs told the way they actually happened — including the ones we got wrong first. Customer names are withheld with their agreement; the numbers are real, and where we lost money we say so.
Three so far, and none of them is a brochure
We would rather publish three jobs in full than twenty logos. Each one names the material, the quantity, the lead time and what went wrong — because that is the part a buyer actually needs in order to judge us.
15 daysEvery one passed — first article and production
We offered a smoother finish. The customer said no — and they were right.
Twelve 280 mm-class clutch pressure plates, machined from solid because the casting tooling did not exist yet. We proposed a better surface on the friction face. The engineer explained, in one sentence, why that would have ruined the part.
- Material
- Compacted graphite iron
- Quantity
- 12 pieces
- Lead time
- 15 days
- Critical
- Friction-face Ra
Five hours of stone-washing did not hide the tool marks. So we stopped trying to hide them.
Eight hundred Ti-6Al-4V handle scales for a US knife brand. The marks were ours, the tumbling would not take them out, and the honest fix cost us money. This is the one we got wrong first.
- Material
- Ti-6Al-4V
- Quantity
- 800 sets
- Models
- 2
- Outcome
- Reworked at our cost
1,000 titanium rings, mirror polished, in one month.
Grade 5 titanium rings with a mirror polish, fixture continuity and CMM first article — delivered in one month.
- Material
- Ti-6Al-4V
- Quantity
- 1,000 pcs
- Finish
- Mirror polish
- Lead time
- One month
More are being written up as customers give us permission to publish them. If you want to know whether we have done something like your part, ask — we will tell you plainly whether we have or have not. Ask us →
Your part is probably somewhere between these two.
Send the drawing. An engineer reads it and replies within 16 hours.