Over 32% of industrial equipment failures stem from substandard metal components (IBISWorld, 2023). Traditional fabrication often compromises precision for speed. Our team faced this in 2022 when a client’s aluminum brackets failed after 6 months of use.
Advanced CAM software reduces tool deflection by 40%. For stainless steel storage tanks, we use spiral milling patterns to maintain CNC metal fabrication accuracy below 0.01mm tolerance.
Aluminum 6061 | Stainless Steel 316 | |
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Cost | $2.80/lb | $4.20/lb |
Corrosion Resistance | Moderate | Excellent |
The counter-intuitive thing is, increasing machining time 15% actually reduced total costs 22% through fewer rejects. A medical device client achieved 99.8% dimensional accuracy using our multi-stage verification process.