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  TCI Precision Metals announced Matt Erickson as Director of Sales for the Company effective immediately.  Matt brings with him extensive experience in industrial operations, sales, program management, and a customer-first management style.   “We feel Matt is a perfect fit for TCI Precision Metals and are looking to him to provide expanded hands-on customer interaction, […]

[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text] 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 features, but typically they are square, rectangular or round stock milled […]

TCI Precision Metals has announced a line of Machine-Ready Blanks designed to eliminate material preparation, and support automated loading and unloading of machining centers engaged in light-out or semi-lights-out operations.  Machine-Ready Blanks for lights-out operations pull from TCI Precision Metals' experience in producing close tolerance, pre-machined blanks... More-West  More-Midwest  More-Northeast

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 manufacturing methods available today, each with inherent strengths and weaknesses.  One of the tenets […]

Reduce Setup Time, Improve Production Throughput, Reduce Scrap TCI Precision Metals will be showing its precision Machine-Ready Blanks capabilities to sporting and shooting industry manufacturers at the Shot Show 2020, Las Vegas, NE, January 2--21, Palazzo Ballroom, 5th Floor Venetian Hotel Meeting Rooms, booth 51437. “Machine-Ready Blanks from TCI Precision Metals helps manufacturers increase throughput […]

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 to better support customers. Expand capabilities to increase your value to customers. Improve quality by using the latest technology. Here at […]

TCI spokesperson.  The THV800 is designed to shorten customer lead time and handle increasing demand for Custom Machine-Ready Blanks.  TCI Machine-Ready Blanks are milled in width and length using the THV800's specially designed twin spindle, in one set up instead of two.  More-West.  More-Southwest.  More-Midwest.  More-Southeast.  More-Northeast.

New Feature-Added Blanks from TCI Precision Metals provide customers near-net Machine-Ready Blanks that include one or more features.  Feature-Added Blanks eliminates the need for material prep and can include drill, bore, turn, mill, rough and hog out features as specified. More-Southwest.  More-Southeast.

TCI Precision Metals, today, announced the installation of its newest high tech milling machine.  The new Amada, THV800 is the latest in precision duplex milling and adds to the line of optimized milling machines used by TCI Precision Metals in the production of Machine-Ready Blanks.  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 lights-out, with the concept being more of a philosophy than a […]