CNC Machining in China — Tiers, Tolerances & the Cheap-Quote Trap
How to pick a shop that holds your tolerance and verifies it — supplier tiers, material certs and the landed-cost trap.
Read the guide →Choosing and running each process — CNC, die casting, extrusion, sheet metal and the alloys behind them.
How to pick a shop that holds your tolerance and verifies it — supplier tiers, material certs and the landed-cost trap.
Read the guide →When casting beats machining, how tooling cost scales with volume, and keeping porosity out of the part.
Read the guide →Custom dies, 6063/6061 profiles, machining after extrusion, and how to match the profile to the job.
Read the guide →One coordinated flow from flat pattern to finished part — design rules and avoiding weld distortion.
Read the guide →What comes after the extrusion press: cutting, CNC machining, bending, welding, inserts and finishing.
Read the guide →Ingots for casting, billets for extrusion — the differences in strength, weldability, anodizing and tolerance that decide which one your part should be.
Read the guide →Vetting factories and getting drawings right before they hit a shop floor.
What a real factory audit checks, the red flags that never show up in a sales brochure, and how a drawing review separates capable shops from talkers.
Read the guide →The five changes that take a drawing from “makeable eventually” to “right first time” — and why fixing them in the file costs cents instead of a tooling revision.
Read the guide →Send a drawing and target market — I'll recommend the process and model the landed cost before you quote a customer.