Production Machining and Repeat Batch Work

If you order the same machined component month after month, you already know the two things that actually matter: the parts have to be identical every time, and they have to arrive when the supplier said they would.

That is what this shop is built around.

Lights-out running

We set up and prove jobs during the day. Then the machines keep cutting after everyone has gone home, unattended, through the night.

Two things follow from that, and both of them are yours:

Sharper pricing. Machine hours after 6pm do not cost what machine hours during the day cost. On a repeat batch, that difference goes into the quote.

Dates that hold. This is the bigger one. Most machine shops miss dates because everything is competing for the same daylight hours and one breakdown job blows up the week. Our overnight capacity is the buffer. When something urgent lands, it does not eat your delivery — your batch is already running while everyone is asleep.

We would rather quote you an honest date and hit it every time than win the job on a date we cannot make.

What we already run this way

Precision crimping dies — hex and round — for electrical manufacturers and wholesalers. Ongoing repeat batches, made to size, batch after batch. It is our bread and butter, and it is the reason our processes look the way they do.

More than 200 die sizes are on file, across hex, round, nest and indent types, and the batches run year round. Every one of them is a repeat part, made to the same size every time.

How a repeat batch actually works here

1. First article. We machine the first part and check it against your drawing before the batch runs. You approve it, or we adjust.

2. The setup gets recorded. Program, tooling, workholding, offsets, inspection points — all documented and kept. The second batch is not a fresh start, it is a repeat, which is why it is quicker and cheaper.

3. The batch runs. Largely overnight.

4. Inspection. First-off fully checked against the drawing, then sample checks through the run — micrometers, bore gauges, thread gauges and go/no-go gauges on the critical dimensions. If you need 100% inspection or documented results, say so and it is priced in.

5. Delivery on the date. With paperwork.

Held stock and call-offs

If your usage is steady, we can hold finished stock and release against your orders — so your lead time is effectively zero, and we are running batches on a schedule that suits the machines rather than reacting to every purchase order.

We can also hold material for your parts, which takes supplier lead time out of the equation entirely.

We will hold finished stock against a blanket order or a rolling forecast, and hold raw material for your parts. Tell us your usage and how you want to call it off, and we will set it up.

What we need from you to price a batch properly

• The drawing or a sample part
• Annual usage, or usage per month — this changes the price more than any other single thing
• Batch size and how often you want to call it off
• Whether the design is stable or still moving
• Material, finish and any treatment — plating, heat treatment, coating
• Your inspection and paperwork requirements

Why change supplier

Buyers do not move a repeat part for a few cents. They move it because the current supplier keeps missing dates, quality drifts, nobody answers the phone, or the lead time crept out from three weeks to seven and nobody mentioned it.

If any of that sounds familiar, send us the drawing. We will price it and give you a date. Run one batch with us and judge us on whether it turned up when we said.

Being straight about size

We are a small shop — Todd and one machinist. We are not going to take on a job we cannot deliver just to have the order, and we do not hold ISO certification, and we are not working toward it. What you get instead is the machinist who made your parts answering the phone.

What a small shop with overnight capacity gives you is: your job matters to us, you talk to the person running it, and you get told the truth about dates. For repeat batch work in the volumes we handle, that beats being customer number 400 at a bigger shop.