Swiss machining for medical devices produces most of the small metal parts inside a device: bone screws, dental abutments, surgical drive shafts, catheter hubs. A guide bushing grips the bar within about 2mm of the cutting edge. Slender parts under Ø32mm hold ±0.005mm there. Chuck the same geometry on a […]

The screw holding your phone together. The gear shaft inside a wristwatch. The threaded connector on a medical device. Look closely at almost any small, precise metal part, and there’s a good chance it came off a Swiss machining lathe. Most people have never heard of the process. Yet it

CNC turning wear resistance starts on the lathe, not in the plating booth. A rod can have the right steel, the right heat treatment, even the right coating. It can still fail early. That happens when the turning process leaves it with chatter marks, residual stress, or a bow —

If you’ve ever watched a mixing shaft run for six months and come out perfectly true, or watched a cheaper one warp within weeks, you already understand why stainless steel mixing shaft machining is not a commodity purchase. The shaft is the one part of an agitator that never stops