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Areas of Expertise:

Precision Turning
- Multi-Spindle
  - Applications
    - High-volume production
    - OD tolerances to 15 microns
    - ID tolerances to 12 microns
    - Flatness requirements to 5 microns
  - Equipment
    - Davenport
    - Ergomat
    - Gildemeister
    - Index 25mm
    - Index MS32-42
    - New Britain
    - Schutte 12mm - 51mm
    - Tornos 16mm - 20mm
    - Tornos MultiDeco
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
- Single-Spindle
  - Applications
    - Long length-to-diameter ratio (3:1 to 25:1)
    - Cam machines to 10 mm diameter
    - CNC machines to 32 mm diameter
    - Diameter tolerances under 10 microns
  - Equipment
    - Bechler
    - Biglia
    - Citizen L20-VII
    - Citizen L25
    - Citizen L32
    - Citizen M20
    - Gildemeister
    - Hardinge 42mm
    - Hitachi Seiki
    - Manurhin
    - Miyano 20mm - 34mm
    - Peterman
    - Star
    - Tornos 7mm - 10mm
    - Tornos Deco 13mm
    - Tornos Deco 20mm
    - Tornos Deco 2000 10-26mm
    - Traub
    - Tsugami 7mm - 20mm
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
- CNC Multi-Axis
  - Applications
    - Parts with complex ID/OD features
    - Bar capacities to 60 mm diameter
    - Tolerances typically 15 - 25 microns
    - Includes ultra-precision turning, lapping and ID honing
    - Parts with size, flatness and roundness to +/- 2 microns
    - Tolerances held up to 1 micron in certain applications
  - Equipment
    - Gildemeister
    - Hardinge Conquest GT
    - Hardinge
    - Kummer
    - Miyano
    - Precitec
    - Takisawa
    - Traub
    - Wasino
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
Precision Grinding
- CNC Infeed Center-less
  - Applications
    - High-volume parts
    - Complex OD features
    - Difficult-to-machine materials
  - Equipment
    - Carjac
    - Bocca & Malandrone
    - Ghiringhelli
    - Herminghausen
    - Lidköping
    - Micron
    - Microrex
    - Microsa
    - Nomoco
    - Rossi & Monza
    - Royal Master
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
- CNC Through feed
  - Applications
    - Parts with fine finishes
    - Parts with OD tolerances below 5 microns
    - Appropriate length-to-diameter ratio
    - Roundness tolerances under 5 microns
  - Equipment
    - Cincinnatti
    - Ghiringhelli
    - Koyo
    - Micron
    - Microrex
    - Unison
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
- Between-Center Grinding
  - Applications
    - Roundness tolerances under 2 microns
    - Parts at OD tolerances below 3 microns
  - Equipment
    - Studer
    - Tschudin
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
- ID Grinding
  - Applications
    - Finishing of internal bores and seats to achieve low single digit micron capability on size, roundness, taper, and cylindricity, as well as achieve very fine surface finish.
  - Equipment
    - Bryant
    - Micron
    - Studer
    - Tschudin
    - UVA
    - Voumard
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
- Surface Grinding
  - Applications
    - Flatness and parallelism tolerances up to 10 microns
    - Overall length tolerance to 5 microns
  - Equipment
    - Blohm
    - Brand
    - Swisher
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
Gear Manufacturing
- Hobbing
  - Applications
    - Straight, helical and spline gears, pinions, worm gears and worm shafts
    - Green hobbing of unhardened steel
    - Finish machining of gears from hardened materials, HRC 60 and up
  - Equipment
    - Koepfer
    - Lambert
    - Mikron
    - Pfauter
    - Whali W80
  - Materials
    - Alloy Steel
    - Brass
    - Bronze
    - Carbon Steel
    - Fatigue- and Stress-proof Steel
    - Free Machining Steel
    - Specialty Stainless
- Thread Milling
  - Applications
    - Spline gears, pinion gears, worm gears and worm shafts
  - Equipment
    - Koepfer
    - Lambert
    - Monnier & Zahner
  - Materials
    - Alloy Steel
    - Brass
    - Bronze
    - Carbon Steel
    - Fatigue- and Stress-proof Steel
    - Free Machining Steel
    - Specialty Stainless
- Roll Finishing
  - Applications
    - Roller finishing of worm gears
    - Surface finish to Ra 0.4 or less
    - Permits a higher surface micro-hardness without heat treatment
    - Quality level to DIN 9 standard for worm gears
  - Equipment
    - Escofier
    - Thommen
  - Materials
    - Alloy Steel
    - Brass
    - Bronze
    - Carbon Steel
    - Fatigue- and Stress-proof Steel
    - Free Machining Steel
    - Specialty Stainless
Precision Milling
- Applications
  - Repetitive prismatic parts with multi-plane machining
- Equipment
  - Brother
  - Chiron
  - Deckel
  - Fanuc
  - Haas
  - Kitamura
  - Makino
  - Matsuura
  - Mazac
- Materials
  - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
  - Alloy Steel
  - Aluminum
  - Brass
  - Carbon Steel
  - Exotic Alloys
  - Specialty Stainless
  - Titanium
Forging
- Applications
  - Hot and cold forging
  - Induction heating
  - Forging with progressive die
  - Finish machining of forged parts
- Equipment
  - J and L Presses
  - Komatsu
- Materials
  - Alloy Steel
  - Carbon Steel
Plastic Injection Molding
- Applications
  - Various gear designs, bearing components and housing components
  - Worm gears with metallic hub
  - Precision gear over-molding to achieve optimum noise performance
- Equipment
  - Arburg 50T
  - Delrin
- Materials
  - PEEK
  - Plastic
  - Delrin
Rotary Transfer Machining
- Applications
  - Multi-station machining operations, such as drilling, reaming, tapping, threading, milling, and burnishing
- Equipment
  - Hydromat
  - Imas
  - Imoberdorf
  - Mikron Multistar
  - Mikron Multifactor
  - Posalux
  - Wirth & Gruffat
- Materials
  - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
  - Alloy Steel
  - Aluminum
  - Brass
  - Carbon Steel
  - Exotic Alloys
  - Specialty Stainless
  - Titanium
Precision Secondary Machining
- Double-Disk Grinding & Fine Grinding
  - Applications
    - Grinding of parallel surfaces to achieve fine finishes, flatness, parallelism and size control.
  - Equipment
    - Nissei
    - Peter Wolters
    - Stahli
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
- Spline & Thread Rolling
  - Applications
    - Generating splines, threads, and improving surface finish and form on cut threads.
  - Equipment
    - Escofier
    - Kinefac
    - ORT
    - Thommen
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
- Broaching
  - Applications
    - Efficient production of flats and slots while achieving fine surface finish, flatness, parallelism and size control.
  - Equipment
    - Arthur Klink
    - Aumat
    - JTC
    - TyMiles
    - Varinelli
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
- Surface Grinding
  - Applications
    - Combining milling, hard tuning, broaching, surface grinding, coining, honing, gun drilling, burnishing, ballizing, thread whirling, or brazing with other processes
  - Equipment
    - Blohm
    - Brand
    - Swisher
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
- Drill/Mill/Tapping
  - Applications
    - Facilitate drilling, reaming, tapping, and milling of complex shapes and eccentric features.
  - Equipment
    - Brother
    - Chiron
    - DMG
    - Fanuc Robo Drill
    - Kitamura
    - Mazak
    - Miyano
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
Sub-Assembly
- Applications
  - Assembly of in-house manufactured components with purchased (such as plastics or stampings) and/or outsourced parts to provide customer with production-line-ready sub-assembly components, such as gear box assemblies.
- Equipment
  - ATIS
  - Custom Machines
  - Dixon
  - Mikron
  - Philips
- Materials
  - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
  - Alloy Steel
  - Aluminum
  - Brass
  - Carbon Steel
  - Electrical Iron
  - Exotic Alloys
  - Specialty Stainless
  - Titanium
Laser Machining
- Applications
  - Stents and other medical-related components
- Equipment
  - Nd:YAG Lasers
- Materials
  - Exotic Alloys
  - Nitinol
  - Stainless Steel
Finishing
- ID Honing
  - Applications
    - Fine surface finishes to precise dimensions
  - Equipment
    - Accucut
    - Gehring
    - Pemamo
    - Sunnen
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Electrical Iron
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
- Abrasive Flow Machining
  - Applications
    - Creating controlled radiuses on entry and exit hole openings.
  - Equipment
    - Extrudehone
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Electrical Iron
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
- Micro-finishing
  - Applications
    - Very tight dimensional control while producing extremely fine surface finishes
  - Equipment
    - Lam Plan
    - Lapmaster Model 15
    - Safaq
    - Supfina
    - Thielenhaus
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Electrical Iron
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
- Deburring
  - Applications
    - Removing burrs, creating radiuses on external corners, removing scale and other surface contaminants, and improving surface finish.
  - Equipment
    - Burlytic Electrochemical Deburr
    - Dynetics Electrochemical Deburr
    - Dreher Centrifugal Barrel Deburr
    - Graviflow Centrifugal Barrel Deburr
    - Guyson Bead Blast
    - Rotofinish Centrifugal Disk Deburr
    - Spiratron Tumbling Equipment
    - Surftran Thermal Deburr
    - VMB Electrochemical Deburr
  - Materials
    - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
    - Alloy Steel
    - Aluminum
    - Brass
    - Carbon Steel
    - Electrical Iron
    - Exotic Alloys
    - Specialty Stainless
    - Titanium
Heat Treatment
- Atmospheric Heat Treatment
  - Applications
    - Hardening and tempering
  - Equipment
    - Combustol
    - Engefor
    - Ipsen Furnace
  - Materials
    - Carbon Steel
- Induction Heat Treatment
  - Applications
    - Hardening and tempering of shafts and gears
  - Equipment
    - Amysa
    - CFEI Induction
    - CNC Inducto Heat
    - GHL
  - Materials
    - Carbon Steel
Precision Cleaning
- Applications
  - Rinse:
    Water solutions and recycled mineral spirits are used to clean parts between operations
  - Wash and Precision Ultrasonic:
    For critical parts, ultrasonic wash is combined with rotation and agitation to achieve particle size of less than 250 microns
- Equipment
  - Alpasonic
  - Branson Ultrasonic
  - CAE/Blackstone
  - Crest Ultrasonic
  - Mecano-Lav
  - Multimatic
  - Olympus
  - Pero
  - Proceco
  - Ramco
  - Safety Clean
- Materials
  - 300 and 400 Series Stainless
  - Alloy Steel
  - Aluminum
  - Brass
  - Carbon Steel
  - Exotic Alloys
  - Specialty Stainless
  - Titanium

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