Make or Buy? Near net size pre-machined materials, or what we refer to as Machine-Ready Blanks, are designed to increase the efficiency of production machining by eliminating material prep. Machine-Ready Blanks can be virtually any size or shape and can include added... Read More >
Helps Reduce Buy-to-Fly Ratios- Buy-to-Fly Ratio (BTF) is a term used mainly by additive manufacturing suppliers to substantiate the efficiencies of 3D printing. The BTF analogy is a good one, all things equal, but they are not. There are many different... Read More >
Improve working conditions for your employee’s health and safety. Reduce your Company’s footprint on the environment, including energy consumption, process improvement, and material handling. Shorten turnaround time on customer orders. Increase capacity and efficiency... Read More >
It seems a lot of folks these days ares caught up in the promise of lights-out machining and manufacturing. The term alone conjures up images of a dark factory, fully automated and requiring no human presence on-site. Reality is somewhere in between lights-on and... Read More >
Helping our customers do more in less time is what we are all about at TCI Precision Metals, but sometimes even we need to be reminded that without efficiency, busy is not always better. The old adage of ‘we’ve always done it that way’ no longer applies. Today we... Read More >
