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Welding Basics – Welding Tips and Tricks Welding Basics Welding is a process that uses electric to bring a particular diameter electrode to its kindling point and join 2 metallic pieces of metal together. Each type of material from steel to stainless to aluminium all have different melting points.  Typically on a GMAW Mig-welding Arc… Continue reading Welding Basics – Welding Tips and Tricks – MIG + WIG + Arc + Robotic Welding 101

Laser Cutting – Metal, Steel, Titanium Process of Cutting Metal The process of cutting metal at PCI goes pretty simply actually for somebody who has never seen it done before, but you end up just taking a standard material which for us it’s very stiff types of metal, put it onto a C&C controlled machine… Continue reading Laser Cutting – Metal, Steel, Titanium, Thicknesses and Tolerances With a Laser Cutter

How Laser Cutting Works Laser Cutting Just laser cutting is having gas, mixtures of gases excited enough electronically, that emits a light beam that basically just cuts the material, it evaporates the material. To the best of my abilities laser cutting is generated by a power supply that creates a laser beam which is, basically… Continue reading How Laser Cutting Works – Materials – Speed – CO2 and Fiber Optic Laser Cutters

Manufacturing Optimization   Production Process A couple of things that can get the product to the customer quickly would be a couple of things. One would be a first article inspection verses a first piece check if you will. A first article will require a full blown process check on every critical dimension that there… Continue reading Manufacturing Optimization for Quick Response Laser Cutting, Bending and Welding

Laser Cutting and Manufacturing Customer Options There are a couple of different options a customer can bring in. They can bring a hard print that is basically the drawing of a part that they want for us to produce verses a DXF file. Which is an electronic drawing that we can use within our processes… Continue reading Laser Cutting and Manufacturing Preparation Best Practice

How To Get the Best Price Pricing Some of the things we can do to maybe reduce some of our pricing? I guess first of all I don’t necessarily think it is about pricing so to speak, I think maybe being the lowest person on the totem pole isn’t necessarily the best part you are… Continue reading How To Get the Best Price when Manufacturing Metal Products by Laser Cutting, Bending and Welding

ISO 9001 and ISO 9000 ISO9001 ISO9001 is the actual document that shows our standards that we are in compliance with the quality standards. It focuses on all of our manufacturing requirements as far as getting good quality product out to our customer. The difference between ISO9000 and 9001 is 9000 is the actual standard… Continue reading ISO 9001 and ISO 9000 – International Standards Organization 9001 and 9000 Process Approach, Certif

ISO 14001 and ISO 14000 ISO14001 is similar to ISO9001 in that is sets defined processes and procedures that in this case documents how we handle environmental waste products coming out of our factory as opposed to 9001 which defines how we handle our quality processes. ISO14001 is a program we embarked on about 3… Continue reading ISO 14001 and ISO 14000 Environmental Management System and Audit Explained in the Training Tutorial

ISO 9001 Quality Management System Video From the video – ISO 9001 ISO9001 is an international quality standard that is recognized among worldwide manufactures as a certification that your organization is able to document the processes it uses to manufacture and produce the product or parts or components that the company supplies to its customers.… Continue reading ISO 9001 Quality Management System Video