Six industries. One envelope. Two lanes.
Six industries order six different vocabularies of part. They all meet the same envelope. Each page below takes the parts that industry actually orders, names the lane each one lands in, and says why — in the words your drawings already use.
Catalog means a price in minutes and a date backed by money. Sourcing means a human inside two business days and a date we commit to without the automatic-credit instrument. Nothing is refused for being outside the envelope. The short list we do decline — the work that would require a certification or a code stamp we don't hold — is named on these pages too, in the same size type.
- Process
- 3-axis vertical milling · ≤ 2 setups
- Envelope
- 12 × 8 × 4 in · fixed material library · 3 tolerance classes
- Lanes
- Catalog: instant, guaranteed · Sourcing: human, ≤ 2 business days
Wide door. Narrow factory.
We take demand from every industry on this page and triage it into two lanes with two different promises. The triage is our job, not your homework — you upload the part, and the automated DFM names the lane and the reason.
Marketing breadth is free. Operational breadth is earned.
In the envelope
- Instant price, generated from the published envelope.
- A ship date written as a contract term with automatic credits.
- A complete Job Packet — twelve artifacts, all mandatory.
- Batched across customers where the keys match, which shows up in the price.
- Material certs and a dimensional report on every order.
Everything else
- Human review, with a response inside two business days.
- A quote with a real committed date, brokered through vetted shops.
- Weldments, turned parts, exotic materials, assemblies, oversize work.
- The same documentation. The same single accountable party.
- No automatic-credit instrument — we guarantee with money only where we hold the delivery data.
Some work is inside the envelope and still shouldn't price itself in four seconds — Tight-class tolerances, undercuts, deep pockets, titanium, PEEK, finishes off the fixed menu. Those flag: the automated quote pauses and an engineer dispositions it within four business hours. You will see the flag and the reason for it, not a spinner.
A short list of work we decline in both lanes, because taking it would mean claiming a certification or a code stamp we do not hold — finished medical devices, code-stamped pressure boundaries, finished controlled articles, anything gated on AS9100 or a CMMC assessment. A break line on these pages means the drawing stops there, and the vertical page says exactly why.
Pick the one whose drawings look like yours.
- 01
Medical
Components for device makers and their contract manufacturers. Not finished devices.
- Catalog
- Instrument bodies, fluidic manifolds, carriage plates, tray inserts, line fixtures
- Sourcing
- Turned instrument families, ground and EDM'd features
- Not offered
- Finished devices, sterile-barrier work, device-labeled product
- 02
Robotics
End-of-arm tooling, mounts, and carriage plates for teams shipping a rev a month.
- Catalog
- EOAT plates, gripper jaws, motor and encoder mounts, rail carriers
- Sourcing
- Shafts and pulleys, weldments, swept 5-axis geometry
- 03
Energy
Grid apparatus, power electronics, and storage hardware — plus the spares nobody stocks.
- Catalog
- Standoff and terminal blocks, linkage plates, cold plates, module end plates
- Sourcing
- Copper busbar, weldments, oversize cabinet panels
- Not offered
- Code-stamped pressure boundaries
- 04
Defense sustainment
DMSMS and obsolescence machining, routed only through ITAR-registered shops.
- Catalog
- Bracketry, covers, shims, adapter plates, depot tooling
- Sourcing
- Castings, weldments, reverse engineering from a worn sample
- Not offered
- Finished controlled articles, AS9100- or CMMC-gated work
- 05
Industrial OEM
Spares and program work for equipment builders with an installed base to feed.
- Catalog
- Guards, covers, cam and linkage plates, wear plates, manifolds, line jigs
- Sourcing
- Turned shafts and bushings, ground surfaces, tool-steel die components
- 06
Instrumentation
Test, measurement, optics, and vacuum hardware where the tolerance block is the conversation.
- Catalog
- Optical sub-plates, mount bodies, stage plates, detector housings, spacers
- Sourcing
- Lapped and polished surfaces, vacuum flanges, diamond turning, Invar
The same eight questions, in every industry.
Nothing on the six pages that follow is a judgment call. A part lands in the Catalog when it clears every row of this table and lands in Sourcing when it doesn't — and the violating feature gets named to you in plain language, with a compliant alternative where one exists.
| Decides | In the Catalog | Outside it |
|---|---|---|
| Process | 3-axis vertical milling, up to two setups (op1 / op2 flip) | Turning, 3+2, 5-axis, wire and sinker EDM, grinding, welding — Sourcing |
| Size | 12″ × 8″ × 4″ max · 0.375″ × 0.375″ × 0.125″ min | Anything outside that box — Sourcing |
| Material | 6061-T6 · 7075-T651 · 303 · 304 · 17-4PH · 1018 · 4140 · brass 360 · Ti 6Al-4V · Delrin 150 · UHMW · PEEK · polycarbonate | Alloys we don't stock — Sourcing. Customer-supplied material accepted with cert; flagged, and it voids the batching discount |
| Tolerance | Standard ±0.005″ · Precision ±0.002″ — both priced instantly | Tight ±0.0005–0.001″ stays in the envelope but is flagged: CMM-verified shop tier, engineer disposition inside 4 business hours |
| Features | Min wall 0.030″ metals, 0.060″ plastics · min internal radius 0.031″ · holes to 8:1 depth-to-diameter · pockets to 4:1 depth-to-tool | Undercuts, T-slots, dovetails — flagged. Holes to 12:1 and pockets to 6:1 — flagged |
| Threads | UNC / UNF #2 through 3/4″ · M2 through M20 · 2B / 6H | Anything off the standard tap library — flagged |
| Finish | As-machined 125 µin (63 µin premium) · bead blast · anodize Type II clear and black · Type III hardcoat · passivation · zinc · black oxide · powder coat | Chem film, nickel, anodize colors, anything else — flagged and partner-routed; it adds stated days |
| Quantity | 1 – 500 pieces, instant. Reorders of an existing packet, always instant | 501 – 5,000: engineered quote in 2 business days. Above 5,000: a program conversation |
Every limit above is a published constraint of the current Catalog envelope — not a measured capability, and not the outer edge of what we will take on. Work outside it is not refused; it gets a human and a real date.
Tell us what you wish were instant.
Every Sourcing job is logged with the feature class that put it there. That log is the envelope-expansion roadmap, and it is the only thing that moves the envelope.
A feature class graduates into the Catalog when it exceeds five percent of inbound demand for two consecutive quarters and verification tooling for it exists. Both conditions, not either. Turning is first in line.
The envelope grows from delivered evidence, never from marketing pressure — which is the entire reason the guaranteed date is worth anything.
How the model worksNo case studies. No logos. No percentages.
You will not find a customer name, a testimonial, or an on-time figure on any of the six pages, because we have not yet shipped enough jobs in any of these industries to publish a number that means something. A number that means nothing is worse than no number at all.
Two figures belong here. Both publish from the Capacity Ledger, from delivered orders, on the day there are enough of them to be worth reading — and when they publish, the quoted dates publish alongside the delivered ones.
Everything else on these pages is a published constraint of the envelope, the packet, or the quality system — the design of the factory, stated as such, not a claim about its performance.
Publishes from the Capacity Ledger once delivered volume in an industry supports a figure that isn't noise.
Same source, same rule. Quoted dates and delivered dates, both recorded, both published.
Upload the model. We'll name the lane.
One door, whichever industry you're in. The triage is ours: automated DFM checks the envelope, names any violating feature in plain language, and returns a price and date options — or a human, inside two business days.
Upload a PartWe send you the job, not the RFQ.
Every industry on this page routes to the same network on the same standard. No quoting, no programming, no sales function. Packets arrive verified; you load, prove out, run, probe, ship.
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