{"id":55,"date":"2026-07-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/five-drawing-notes-that-cut-machining-lead-time\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:00:00","slug":"five-drawing-notes-that-cut-machining-lead-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/five-drawing-notes-that-cut-machining-lead-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Five drawing notes that cut machining lead time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the days lost on a machined part are lost before the first chip. A drawing that answers the programmer&#8217;s questions goes straight to the machine; one that doesn&#8217;t waits in a queue for an email reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes that save a week<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Datums that match how the part is used, not how it was modelled<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A general tolerance class, so only the critical features carry their own<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Surface finish only where it matters<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The delivery condition of the blank: cast, forged, normalised or quenched and tempered<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A STEP model with the same revision letter as the PDF<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Send all five with the enquiry and we can usually quote machining in two working days and start programming the day the order lands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the days lost on a machined part are lost before the first chip. Five notes on the drawing that let us quote and program faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-machining","tag-lead-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}