Sixteen simultaneous five-axis centers in Dongguan and Singapore, running parts up to 4,000 mm from a single datum. Send a STEP file and a drawing: price, lead time and DFM notes come back within 12 hours.
None of these are machining problems. They are quoting and process-planning problems, and they are cheapest to settle before anyone programs a toolpath.
Extra faces mean extra fixtures and extra datums, and the tolerance stack grows with each one. Ask which faces come off the same setup. If that answer is vague, the price will move after the first article.
A 600 × 600 × 600 mm housing does not belong on a large-format center. Booking the biggest machine because the part happens to fit pays for travel you never use, and it queues the customers who genuinely need 4,000 mm.
Blades, impellers and organic housings need the tool to stay close to normal to the surface. Three-axis ball milling leaves witness lines that somebody polishes by hand, and that labour is the line item nobody quoted.
Thin ribs and deep pockets move after the last fixture change. A supplier who measures the part while it is still clamped is measuring the clamp, and the error appears at assembly, not on the inspection sheet.
Each one removes a specific way a five-axis job loses money: the wrong process, too many setups, or a tool that is too long to hold the surface it cuts.
Three questions decide the process. How many faces carry features that must relate to each other, is the surface itself curved, and can the part be held while every face is cut. The answers point at three-axis, four-axis, 3+2 indexed or simultaneous five-axis, and the cheapest of those is usually the one that actually fits.
That decision is written into the quotation instead of being left to the shop floor. If the geometry changes the answer after the review, you hear about it before the order is released rather than after the material is cut.
A part cut in four operations inherits the error of four fixtures. That error stays invisible on the finished part until the assembly refuses to go together, and by then the lot has already been machined.
Cutting the critical faces from a single datum also changes the inspection problem. The report describes the relationships the designer cares about instead of a list of dimensions that were each true on their own.
Long tools are the enemy of surface finish. On a tilting spindle you rotate the part towards the cutter instead of reaching further with a thin tool, which raises rigidity and lets the same program run through titanium without chatter.
Holder, stock and fixture are modelled and simulated before the first cut. A collision found on screen costs an afternoon; a collision found at the machine costs a delivery date.
The same part can often be made three ways. This is how the three processes compare on the work we quote every week.
| Process | Typical parts | Setups | Where it saves money | Where it costs more |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3-axis milling | Plates, brackets, heat sinks, pockets on one face | One or two | Short programming, fastest metal removal, lowest machine rate | Every extra machined face needs a new fixture and a new datum |
| 3+2 indexed (positional) | Housings, frames, manifolds, prismatic parts with bores on several sides | One | Five faces reached without manual re-clamping; rigid cutting while the axes are locked | Rotary axes must be positioned and locked, and curved surfaces still take multiple passes |
| Simultaneous 5-axis | Impellers, blades, aerospace structures, organic housings, undercuts | One | Free-form surfaces finished in one pass; short stiff tools in titanium and hard alloys | Highest machine rate, and programming plus simulation time is longer than for three-axis work |
Most projects need more than one process. These run in-house, so a part moves between them without a new supplier onboarding.
Continuous five-axis contouring for impellers, blades, complex housings and any geometry with undercuts or blended surfaces.
Positional multi-face machining for prisms, frames, plates and housings, and the economical route to several machined faces in one setup.
27 three-axis machines for flat, square and pocketed parts where extra axes add cost without adding capability.
Turned shafts, fittings and motor parts, including mill-turn cycles that combine turning and milling in a single program.
Anodizing, hard anodizing, plating, bead blasting, brushing and polishing to match the callout on your drawing.
Manufacturability review before cutting, in-process checks, and dimensional or first-article documentation on request.
| Machine group | Working envelope | Part families that belong here | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Large-format five-axis | 4,000 × 400 × 150 mm | Long frames, rail sections, extrusion-based structures | The envelope decides: no smaller machine reaches both ends |
| Medium-format five-axis | 750 × 1,150 × 550 mm and 600 × 600 × 600 mm | Housings, manifolds, brackets with bores on several faces | Face count and bore relationships, not part length |
| Compact five-axis | 500 × 500 × 450 mm and 500 × 310 × 200 mm | Small precise hardware, robot joints, medical components | Tighter tolerances and shorter tools suit a smaller, faster machine |
| Trunnion rotary table | Ø400 mm swing | Parts that must be turned and milled without re-clamping | Single-setup machining up to the table diameter |
| Three-axis and four-axis | 27 three-axis and 12 four-axis machines | Plates, pockets, shafts and turned parts with cross features | Extra axes add cost where the geometry does not need them |
The equipment list is only half of it. The other half is who answers the phone when the drawing is ambiguous.
Founded in 2011 and focused on precision CNC machining since, with prototypes, bridge tooling and production running through the same plants and the same quality system.
16 simultaneous five-axis centers, 12 four-axis mills, 27 three-axis machines and 16 mill-turn centers, supported by in-house finishing and inspection lines.
One part or ten thousand. A single prototype gets the same engineering review, the same equipment and the same inspection as a production release.
Upload a STEP file and a drawing and you get pricing with a free DFM analysis back within 12 hours. Production can start within 24 hours of approval.
Our own equipment and our own finishing lines leave fewer external dependencies, so the historical late-delivery probability stays under 2%.
ISO 9001:2015 for quality, IATF 16949:2016 for automotive programmes, ISO 13485:2016 for medical hardware and ISO 27001:2022 for your data.
Motor housings, bell housings and stator or rotor components produced under IATF 16949 process control.
Joint housings and drive parts where bore alignment and seat finish decide how smoothly the assembly runs.
Small precise parts machined under ISO 13485 process control, with inspection documentation available.
Frames, brackets and structural parts for machine builders, machined in-house with the rest of the assembly.
Count the faces that carry features relating to each other, then look at the surfaces. Two or three related faces without free-form geometry usually run on four axes or 3+2 positioning for less money.
Continuous five-axis work earns its rate when the surface is curved, when there are undercuts, or when the tool has to stay normal to the geometry. Send the model either way; we quote the process the part needs, not the most impressive one we own.
Maximum processing size is 4,000 mm. Large-format travel is 4,000 × 400 × 150 mm, medium format covers 750 × 1,150 × 550 mm and 600 × 600 × 600 mm, and compact machines cover 500 × 500 × 450 mm with a Ø400 mm rotary table.
If the bounding box sits close to a limit, send it and we will confirm the machine and the fixturing before quoting rather than after.
±0.005 mm / ±0.0002 in is our stated machining tolerance, held on the features you call out and on dimensions the drawing leaves open. On a long part, temperature matters as much as the machine: a 500 mm aluminium part grows roughly 12 µm for every degree it warms.
Where a dimension is critical we agree the measuring temperature before production, and we say so in the quotation if a tolerance needs extra passes or extra inspection.
STEP, STP, IGS, IGES, STL or X_T for the model, plus DWG, DXF or PDF for the drawing. If the model and the drawing carry different revisions, tell us which one governs. A five-axis program built from the wrong revision is an expensive way to find out.
Both, on the same machines. There is no minimum order quantity, so a single part is a normal order, and the same program scales to a production release of 10,000+ parts once the design is frozen.
Quotation and a free DFM analysis within 12 hours of upload, production starting within 24 hours of approval, and parts normally shipping in 3–5 days. Complex five-axis work with special material or finishing is quoted with its own schedule, stated up front rather than adjusted later.
Critical features are checked between operations and again at the end. Raw material, in-process and final checks are recorded, and dimensional reports are issued on request.
Because the critical faces come off one datum, the report describes the relationships that matter in the assembly instead of a set of unrelated dimensions.
For prismatic parts, often yes. Free-form geometry cannot be defined by views alone, so those parts need a solid model. If you only have a drawing, send it and we will say what is missing instead of guessing at the surface.
Send the model and the drawing. You get a price, a lead time and a straight answer on whether five axes are needed, plus the details that would cost more if nobody mentioned them first.
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