Capabilities

A designer sitting with a drawing needs six figures to decide whether a supplier is relevant: how big the part can be, how much it can weigh, which alloys are run, which tolerance is held, how small the series can be, and how long the lead time is.

If he does not have them, he moves on to the next supplier. He does not call to ask — he has four other names on the list.

We have been casting for eighty years and machining for thirty, but we have never written down what we can actually deliver. We are fixing that here, and in two stages: first we publish everything that is documented, then we fill in the rest as the figures are verified against our machines.

That makes the pages below a little unusual to look at. Some fields carry a number. Others say “Available on request”. We could have written “a high degree of accuracy and repeatability” instead, the way almost everyone does. But that does not help you decide anything.