Build To Inventory
Purchasing more than you need can be expensive, especially if your CNC machined product is taking up shelf space. The Solution? Let Preece Machining & Assembly manufacture and build to our inventory. You tell us how many parts you need and at what frequency you need them and let us handle the rest. The best of both worlds: Get your CNC machined parts when you need them all while getting the production pricing that you need to be competitive. Please contact us if you’d like to know more about inventory management solutions.
Reduce Costs
The start of a project always begins the same: Request for a quote, or RFQ. Once a RFQ is received, our custom quoting software allows us to analyze the geometry and highlight possible problematic features. Our team is instantly notified of the pending RFQ and the process is started. One powerful feature of our quoting software is the ability to easily quote many different quantities of the same part for our customers to demonstrate price saving opportunities.
The most significant expenses associated with high volume CNC machining are machining time, set-up costs, material costs, and inspection. As the volume of a project increases, the more time can be allocated towards increasing the efficiency of every aspect of part production. Each area of the project that can be optimized results in savings passed along to our customers. We are able to pin point these areas consistently with our dedicated, highly skilled team of machinist and project managers.
Lights Out CNC Machining
Preece Machining & Assembly has invested heavily in lights out machining technology. Lights out high volume CNC machining refers to running parts unattended or over night without the added intervention from an operator. Skilled labor is a major cost to all high volume CNC machining shops and is factored in to all the work that flows through the shop. The ability to reduce skilled labor enables major cost saving for our customers. Lights out machining also boosts our shops capacity enabling us to be more productive with less shifts. A great use case is on our CNC lathe; we have been able to set up our lathe loading the bar feeder with raw stock, leave for the night and come back to finished parts in the morning. This overnight automation enables a 45% cost reduction for our customer. Click here to find out if your part is a good fit for lights out high volume CNC machining.
Versatile Quality Control
Our CNC machine shop in Boulder, CO has a robust quality control lab and a strong quality policy that all our employees embrace throughout the company. Our quality control lab is temperature controlled and regularly audited to ensure we can deliver consistent results to our customers. We aim for zero defects to be released to our customers and have procedures in place to catch issues as they arise in the high volume CNC machining process.
Preece Machining & Assembly is equipped and ready to handle the inspection needs of a production run because we built our QC lab with customer satisfaction in mind. Our lab is built around our fully CNC CMM allowing us to meet production inspection needs and automate the inspection process. The CMM in our QC lab can inspect parts fully unattended and has 5 axis capability.
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High volume CNC machining is not for every CNC machining job, but there are times where it is the best option. If you want to get parts faster while keeping costs down, high volume CNC machining could be the solution. Choose Preece Machining & Assembly and contact us for more information about how we can help you in the aerospace and defense industry.