Podcast: meviy Explains How its AI-Driven Platform Streamlines CNC and Sheet Metal Parts Quoting and Manufacturing Processes
Zach Kulig provides an overview of meviy's custom part sourcing capabilities for CNC machining and sheet metal fabrication. Read more...
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Why Precision Machining Costs More – and Why It’s Worth It
Precision machining is about more than just cutting parts.
It’s about delivering reliable, high-performance components that meet exacting standards.
At Top Seiko, we specialize in ultra-precision machining—and we’re often asked why it costs more than standard solutions.
In manufacturing, it's easy to stick to what you know. But for designers and engineers facing truly challenging fabrication problems, thinking beyond conventional methods is key.
At Conard Corp., we've seen countless projects where traditional stamping or laser cutting simply couldn't achieve the required precision or detail. That's where photochemical machining (PCM) comes in as an... Read more...
The Benefits of Photo Etching for Super-Critical CO₂ Stirling Engine Designs
sCO₂ Stirling engines operate under extreme conditions to maximize energy extraction from a given heat source. This requires components like heat exchangers, regenerator plates, flow channels, and seals to be manufactured with exacting precision. Photo etching excels in producing highly... Read more...
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- Precision and Accuracy: Photo chemical machining allows for precise and accurate metal fabrication, enabling the creation of intricate and complex designs with dimensional tolerances of +/-15% of metal thickness and feature locations within .001”. Learn more about design for etching here.
- Cost-Effectiveness: Etching is cost-effective for producti...
Small is Big
In most industries, there is a strong demand for precision metal parts. In many cases, these parts also have to be brought down to the micro level - with features that are a few thousandths of an inch. Photo etching has a number of process capabilities that make it a desirable fabrication method for these purposes.
One hole or a million- they are all free!
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Photochemical machining is used to produce metal components for many types of aerospace applications from airframe stiffeners and heat sinks to satellite batteries.
The ability to produce complex parts that are free of burrs and thermal or mechanical distortion in very thin gauges of metal is a key advantage of chemical etching. Precision etched components enable the creation of c... Read more...
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The biggest design problem is that the design requirements for photo etching are not widely understood. The five most common etching design problems are:
1. Choosing metal that is thicker than need
Specifying material thickness in excess of what the application requires. It is not uncommon to see drawings asking for much heavier gauges of metal than the part's function may... Read more...
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- A means of photofabricating thin gauge precision metal parts
- Metal thickness ranges from .001″ to .080″ depending on the type of metal
- Etchable Metals include many alloys of steel, copper, aluminum, molybdenum and more. More Etchable Alloys
- Alternative to stamping, punching, laser, water jet and wire EDM
- Low cost tooling in one...
