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Better Together
Yep, that about sums it up for me. I tend to be pragmatic about most things, but when it comes to the power and resolve of the human spirit, I am highly optimistic. In our lifetime we have met many challenges head-on and have gotten through them, together. The...
Near Net Size Pre-Machined Materials
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...
Near-Net-Shape Manufacturing
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...
Looking for a reason to reinvest in your Company? Here’s six.
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...
Maintaining Consistency – Lights-On, lights-Out or Somewhere in Between
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...
California Waterjet Cutting Services
Waterjet Cutting TCI Precision Metals offers precision waterjet cutting services using the lasted precision CAD cut abrasive jet technology available. Our Omax 80X waterjet machine with patented Tilt-A-Jet head provides precision finished edge cuts that are guaranteed...
Focus on Being Productive Instead of Busy
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...
Rethink Production Machining
'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 consider all...
GRIND.
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...
Shallow Trepanning™ Using Plate Stock
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...
