An engineering audit is the due diligance you need to perform to ensure a potential supplier is up to your standards. Often a visit is required and you can arrange that via our contact form. This blog post lays out a lot of what you will be auditing, to make...
Here’s the story of Pete, a precision engineer, who has to suffer the consequences of working with Mediocre Engineering Ltd… Hidden Costs Of Mediocre Precision Engineering Break The Cycle! You’ve read through the infographic, so what do...
An interesting quote by Bruno Walters, a German pianist and composer, which sheds light on a common dilemma in the engineering world… “By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique. But by concentrating on technique, one does not arrive at...
Complex cycles, CNC milling and… 5 Axis machines! This post illustrates the kind of job we love at Axis Precision Engineering – complicated and testing! Projects requiring complex CNC milling mean our 5 Axis machines, the software that runs them and our...
A capacity list is great, it makes it easy to see if a company has 5 axis simultaneous machining capabilities at a glance. There’s an instant insight into a workshop’s capacity and capability. But what if you want a bit more…? While most...
We’ll be exhibiting at Subcon 2017, the annual exhibition held at the NEC in Birmingham from 6th – 8th June – click here to see how we got on at the 2016 event. For those engineers not located near our base in Essex, this is...
By definition, a successful 5 axis machining company requires a combination of the right machines AND people with very specific expertise. For any given project, the CNC machines used must be capable of producing the tolerances required for the job in hand...
Aluminium alloys are some of the easiest metals to machine. The various grades of aluminium lend themselves to different applications – 6000 series are ideal for commercial work whereas high-strength 7000 series alloys with improved machining characteristics are...
The video shows CNC machining of an aircraft seat arm, with pockets and thin wall sections. This component was milled from billet to completion in a single operation! Machining a component in a single operation The single operation did require a stop to bolt on a...
Hands up if your eagerly anticipated batch of parts has ever arrived late. So late that delays further down the line have resulted in penalties. Not a good way for a CNC machining project to pan out! Ok, now keep those hands up if you’ve had to rework parts...