CNC Turning Design Rules That Cut Cost and Setups
Seven CNC turning design rules that reveal which features on your drawing quietly add a setup, a special tool or a support requirement.
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Plasma Cutting Thick Plate: Tolerances and Trade-Offs
What a plasma edge carries on thick plate: taper, dross, roughness and heat, plus which faces need machining stock before you send the drawing.
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Tariff Landed Cost: What Changed for Fabricated Parts
How duty on an imported fabricated part is calculated as of September 2026: what it is charged on, and how to find which rate applies.
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Design for Robotic Welding: Parts a Robot Can Actually Weld
Design for robotic welding: fit-up tolerances, torch access, fixture datums, and joint choices that make automated welding actually deliver.
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Bigger Turned Parts, One Shop: EMS's New CNC Lathe
EMS adds a SMART NL 3000BLM CNC turning center, expanding turning to bigger diameters and heavier cuts so more turned parts stay in one shop.
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Fabrication Lead Time: What Actually Drives Your Delivery Date
Fabrication lead time explained: why queue time beats cycle time, how material and design choices add weeks, and five ways to compress it.
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Metal Fabrication
What it takes to design, quote, and build custom fabricated parts and assemblies.
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Laser Cutting
How laser cutting works, what it's good for, and how to get the most out of it.
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Reverse Engineering
Turning an existing part into usable data, drawings, and production-ready files.
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Precision Forming
Press brake forming, tolerances, and finishing for formed metal parts.
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Rapid Prototyping
Getting from concept to a physical part fast, before committing to full production.
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Welding
Welding processes, techniques, and what to know before a welded assembly goes into production.
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