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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 […]

TCI Precision Metals has 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. The THV800 will continue to shorten customer lead time and […]

TCI Precision Metals, Gardena, Calif., has installed an Amada THV800 duplex milling machine for the production of its Machine-Ready Blanks™.  The blanks are milled in width and length, using the machine’s twin spindle, in one setup instead of two. One or more blanks can be produced together, up to the machine’s overall dimensional capacity of […]

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 to be square. The speed, precision, and flexibility of waterjet cutting make it an excellent choice for cutting […]