Efficiency
A Fresh Set of Eyes
Occasionally, a fresh perspective is needed to identify solutions to challenges. Scenario: Take, for instance, a situation encountered by one of our clients, a substantial job shop located in Orange County. They were facing difficulties in machining the internal diameter (ID) of a large part with a 2.48” ID, boring to a depth of 5.0”…
Read MoreTriumph in a Titanium Trial
At a prominent aerospace shop, they are roughing Titanium every day. The customer was pleased with how the job was running. They were making the quoted time and had been doing the same jobs for months, using the same tools. “Good enough,” are not words our sales team accepts, so we challenged our customer…
Read MoreS&D Difference – Maximizing your Profitability
In the semiconductor industry, large runs and throughput are the keys to profitability. A local semiconductor company operates in just this way. They have been enjoying running the same parts for years and have been happy with the tooling. When an opportunity arose for S&D’s Darren Dives, to go over the job with the…
Read MorePlug And Play
There are just times when due to many different circumstances, CNC programs or tool paths cannot be changed. It could be either time constraints or lack of programming resources at a customer. The team at S&D in such scenarios is very adept & versatile at making the most of the available resources to improve…
Read MoreAluminum Plate Drilling
Recently, for a longtime customer, we had the opportunity to not only to supply the correct tooling but also to assist in process improvement for aluminum plate drilling. Our customers know they can rely on us to provide solutions to their productivity improvement process. Case in Point We were presented with a challenge to improve…
Read MoreThe S&D Difference
Our customers know they can rely on us to provide solutions to their productivity improvement process. Case in point S&D partnered with our customers and suppliers to reduce cycle time to meet production requirements without adding machines or additional personnel, but running other projects. Scenario Running on a CNC vertical mill, steel casting, requiring 52…
Read MoreTime is Money
We’ve all heard this expression used many times. In manufacturing, wasted cutting time may be the difference between a losing and a highly profitable job.
Case in point: One of our customers has a …
VMI Systems Help us Build Successful Partnerships
Partnership is often talked about in our industry but rarely achieved. Over a series of articles and video testimonials by our customers, I hope to explain that partnership with S&D can come in many forms.
Read MoreMeasurable Success
Sometimes it’s about improving the process and sometimes about the tooling choices, recently our own Brandon Sakata and local Mitsubishi Rep Aram Fundukian teamed up to do both for one of our local mold shops. The results were amazing.
Read MoreHigh Efficiency Milling, is Speed Really the Answer?
There is a lot of talk in our industry now about both High-Efficiency milling which uses solid carbide end mills and High Feed Milling with Indexable carbide inserts. These two machining process are so radically different solid carbide end mills typically engage the work piece along the length of the flutes. While High Feed indexable…
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