CNC Milling and CNC Turning Services for Tight Tolerances: How to Create Highly Precise Parts
Tight tolerances are crucial for the safety and success of products and machinery in critical industries like aerospace, automotive, and defense. In order to create products that meet these tight tolerances, you must use specific machining methods, including CNC milling and CNC turning. Let’s explore CNC milling and CNC turning services for tight tolerances.
Why Tight Tolerances Are Important
Parts with tight tolerances will fit exactly as they should, including snapping, sliding, and pressing together perfectly. Tight tolerances are often required for complex and critical parts, such as those found in the aerospace, automotive, and defense industries. If parts fail in these applications due to tolerances not being met, the results could be extremely dangerous and costly. Ensuring your tolerances are met results in fewer rejections, failures, and issues during assembly. Overall, tight tolerances on your parts will save you time and money.
CNC Turning for Tight Tolerances
During CNC turning for tight tolerances, stationary tools remove parts of the work material as it is rapidly rotated around the tools. At Garland Service Company, we use two types of turning to create precision parts with the tolerances you require.
Swiss Lathe
In this process, a collet and guide bushing are used to hold the stock material in place as it is turned. This ensures that the material is extremely secure and less likely to vibrate during manufacturing, creating thinner, precise, and intricate parts with tight tolerances.
CNC Lathe
This turning process is significantly more accurate than manual or conventional lathes, creating products with complex designs.
CNC Milling for Tight Tolerances
During the CNC milling process, a workpiece is mounted and rotating tools are used to remove material, creating the precision part you require. At Garland, our team uses three common types of CNC milling.
3-Axis CNC Milling
When using 3-axis CNC milling, the cutting tool moves along the X-, Y-, and Z-axes to shape the part as it moves. This process is commonly used to cut sharp edges, drill holes, and perform boring and tapping operations on your precision part.
4-Axis CNC Milling
During this CNC process, material is removed along the X-, Y-, Z-, and A-axes. 4-axis CNC milling is often used to cut holes, cut along the arc, carve cut-outs on cylinders, and perform precision engravings, milling, and drilling operations.
5-Axis CNC Milling
During the 5-axis CNC milling process, tools move in two different directions — translation and rotation. The tools move via translation along the X-, Y-, and Z-axes and via rotation along the A- and C-axes. This process creates highly precise products and parts.
Garland Service Company’s CNC Turning Services for Tight Tolerances are Ideal for Various Industries
At Garland Service Company we offer CNC turning services for various critical industries, including aerospace, automotive, and defense. Each of these industries require extremely tight tolerances to meet the specifications and government requirements set for the industry.
Our company holds various certifications that show our dedication to quality and ensure that we have the capabilities and expertise to create products for these critical industries. These certifications include AS9100, ITAR, and DLIS.
With our CNC machining capabilities, including turning and milling, we are able to create highly precise parts and products that meet the needs of your applications. Plus, with our machinery and experience, we can meet all of the specifications of your products and meet the tightest of tolerances.
Contact our team today to learn more about our services or to get started.
