Journal
Notes from the shop floor
Short pieces on tolerances, remanufacturing and what we learned the hard way.
Why we measure the first article twice
Once on the machine, once in the cold room. The difference is usually 6 µm — and sometimes it is the difference between a batch…
A gearbox housing, three lives
One part number, followed from first machining in 2011 through two remanufacturing cycles to the melt in 2026.
Stress relief after welding: the flatness numbers
What a 4-metre base does overnight in the furnace, measured before and after.
Sorting swarf by alloy pays for itself
Mixed swarf is worth a third of segregated. The bins cost less than one month of the difference.
Lights-out: what the robot cell actually does at 03:00
A night on the pallet cell, in numbers: parts, tool changes, one alarm.
Reading a 3.1 certificate
Which lines matter, which do not, and the one that is most often wrong.
Remanufacturing a spindle to IT5
Grinding, balancing and the bearing seats nobody wants to talk about.
