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TCI Precision Metals recently announced support for lights out manufacturing with close tolerance materials that are Machine-Ready for Production (MRP) Guaranteed. MRP Blanks are custom made to order and eliminate the need for in-house sawing, grinding, flattening, squaring operations and outside processing. Each blank arrives deburred, clean and to the customer’s net specifications as close […]

TCI Precision Metals, Gardena, California, announced support for lights out manufacturing with close tolerance materials that are Machine-Ready for Production (MRP) Guaranteed. MRP Blanks are custom made to order and eliminate the need for in-house sawing, grinding, flattening, squaring operations and outside processing. Each blank arrives deburred, clean and to the customer’s net specifications as […]

Machine-Ready for Production (MRP) Guaranteed TCI Precision Metals announces support for lights out manufacturing with close tolerance materials that are Machine-Ready for Production (MRP) Guaranteed.  MRP Blanks are custom made to order and eliminate the need for in-house sawing, grinding, flattening, squaring operations and outside processing.  Each blank arrives deburred, clean and to the customer’s […]

With prices at historically high levels, a sudden drop would ordinarily be a major concern throughout the supply chain, but most of the participants don’t envision such a scenario unfolding. “We’re under the assumption, from talking to the mills, that it won’t subside for quite a while. We’re planning on the increases continuing through the […]

TCI Precision Metals has installed a second OMAX 80X waterjet machining center at its facility in Gardena, Calif. The new machine is the second waterjet added in the last 12 months to keep up with growing demand for precision machine-ready blanks and other specialty parts. “Our recent investments in both sawing and waterjet cutting equipment […]

TCI Precision Metals has announced the installation of its second OMAX 80X waterjet machining center. The new machine is the second waterjet added in the last year to keep up with growing demand for precision Machine-Ready Blanks and other specialty parts. "Our recent investments in both sawing and waterjet cutting equipment...More

These are strange times we are living through for sure, with seemingly new challenges around every corner.  So, the current global supply chain issue should not be a big surprise for any of us.  How we choose to handle it is another thing; we can all panic and let fear and uncertainty dictate, or we […]

TCI Precision Metals, Gardena, Calif., a family-owned, value-added metal services distributor, has announced the installation of its second OMAX 80X waterjet machining center. The new machine is the second waterjet added in the last 12 months to keep up with growing demand for precision machine-ready blanks and other specialty parts...More

TCI Precision Metals has announced the installation of its second OMAX 80X waterjet machining center. The new machine is the second waterjet added in the last twelve months to keep up with growing demand for precision Machine-Ready Blanks and other specialty parts...More

I find it interesting to hear how different shops quantify investments in new technology, equipment, and emerging processes that promise to reduce cycle time, increase spindle time, or otherwise provide improvement to the status quo of production machining. Anything new that requires an ounce of change in process, regardless of stated benefits, are typically vetted […]