by Chris Anjel | Aug 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Every shop has taken a job where the drawing shows a handful of dimensions with tight tolerances — ±0.005 mm, ±0.001”, true position callouts — and the quote came back based on standard machining rates. Two weeks later, the parts are on the CMM, half are scrap, and...
by Chris Anjel | Aug 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Every shop has taken a job that looked profitable on paper — until the first article inspection revealed a feature that couldn’t hold tolerance without heroic effort. In digital manufacturing, where customers increasingly specify ±0.005 in, ±0.001 in, or even...
by Chris Anjel | Aug 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Tight tolerances are where quotes go to die. A customer asks for ±0.005 mm on a critical bore, and suddenly your standard cycle time, tooling plan, and inspection routine all change. Most shops handle this with a mental multiplier — add 20%, maybe 30%, hope for the...
by Chris Anjel | Jul 13, 2026 | Materials & Pricing, Quoting & Estimating
A single decimal place on a drawing can double the cost of a part. Tolerance callouts are one of the quietest margin killers in digital manufacturing — easy to skim past during quoting, brutally expensive once the job hits the floor. Here are the questions shops ask...
