What are Machine-Ready Blanks?
Our machine-ready blanks are square or rectangular aluminum, stainless steel, or other alloy blanks that are ground and milled to tight-tolerances enabling a CNC machine to get right to final machining. This eliminates the need for squaring up the material prior to finishing the part. This also eliminates the need for specialized machines or tying up machines that are better served performing other operations. Bottlenecks created by time consuming setup and squaring operations are avoided, saving time. This increases shop capacity without adding overhead. Machine-ready blanks arrive to specifications and are ready to go directly from your receiving dock onto your CNC machines.
Standard Blanks
Straight forward machining operations typically use square or rectangular stock milled to custom specifications, +/-.001” dimensionally and as close as .001” flatness, squareness and parallelism. Each blank is deburred, cleaned and securely packaged.
Feature-Added Blanks
Feature-added blanks are milled to the same tight tolerances as standard blanks, but include one or more features specified by the customer. A typical added feature might be a large amount of material removal; e.g. milling all six sides of a rectangular machine-ready blank with apposing steps. When the machine-ready blanks arrive with additional features added, less in-house machine time is required.