Doing An Engineering Audit The Easy Way

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...

When Mediocre Precision Engineering Isn’t Good Enough!

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...

Precision Engineers You Can Trust. What Are You Waiting For?

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…

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...

High-end 5 axis simultaneous machining

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...

Come See Axis PEC At Subcon 2017!

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...

Aluminium Machining And The Right Workshop

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...

[VIDEO] CNC machining in a single operation

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...