Machining

Machining operations and materials

Mechanical machining by chip removal, as a subcontractor: from micromechanical parts to large components, from prototypes to medium series.

Operations

What we do, and on which machines

Turning

Machines: Parallel lathes, CNC lathes

  • Turning
  • Bar turning
  • Threading
  • Milling
  • Contour milling
  • Thread milling
  • Profiling and gear cutting by milling
  • Engraving

Drilling and boring

Machines: Jig borer, Drilling machines, Machining centres

  • Drilling
  • Boring
  • Jig boring
  • Tapping

Slotting

Machines: Slotting machine

  • Profiling and gear cutting by slotting

Grinding and finishing

Machines: Grinding machines

  • External and internal cylindrical grinding
  • Surface grinding
  • Lapping
  • Honing

Cutting

Machines: Miscellaneous equipment

  • Sawing
  • Cutting off

Assembly and welding

Machines: Miscellaneous equipment

  • Mounting
  • Assembly
  • Fitting
  • TIG welding
  • Brazing
  • Tinning

Inspection

Machines: Inspection equipment

  • Dimensional inspection
  • Surface plate inspection with printed measurement report
  • Roughness testing
  • Rockwell, Brinell and Vickers hardness testing

From one-off parts to series

  • Prototypes
  • One-off parts
  • Small and medium series
  • Assemblies and sub-assemblies

Materials

Every metal, and non-metallic materials

Metals and alloys

  • Steels
  • Cast irons
  • Bronzes
  • Brass
  • Copper
  • Stainless steels
  • Aluminium
  • Titanium
  • Tantalum
  • Nickel
  • Hastelloy
  • Inconel
  • Incoloy
  • Monel
  • Invar
  • Kovar

Engineering plastics

  • Graphite
  • PTFE
  • PP
  • PE
  • POM
  • PVC
  • PEEK
  • PSU
  • Vespel

Machinable ceramics

  • Macor
  • Stumatit

Your drawings

From drawing to machine

Programming is done on VIRTUAL GIBBS CAM, from your paper drawing or your file (PDF, JPEG, DXF, DWG, STEP, IGES, SLDPRT). The machining data then goes by cable, via DNC, to the CNC machines.