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 >
‘Those who cannot change their mind cannot change anything’ Today, many shops believe the only way to increase throughput is to invest in more capital equipment, and the resources to run it all, which further increases overhead. Not so fast; shops that... Read More >
To perform repetitive actions until your goal is achieved. Until now, I never considered the fact that we had such a great metaphor for hard work and achieving goals right here in our own shop. Grinding seems like such a harsh term, but by providing repetitive... Read More >
When people think about trepanning they typically envision large, deep, round holes or hollowing of bar stock, but at TCI Precision Metals we provide a variation of trepanning, using plate stock, that we call Shallow Trepanning™. Typical trepanning is the process of... Read More >
