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.
Two so far, and neither of them is a brochure
We would rather publish two 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
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.