Engineering Design Support
A good part design is a critical component of the machining process. A well-designed part is machinable, accurate, and consistent. However, creating a good design may pose a challenge. Quality designs require a deep understanding of the machining process, the materials, and the required tolerances. Swissturn’s engineering team has aided hundreds of customers in various industries in their design process. Bringing our team in early in your design process can help you avoid going down a dead-end design or adding unneeded specifications that drive up costs.
Swissturn’s Design Support Team can provide our customer’s Engineers with the right tools and resources they need to develop and optimize the design of their critical components:
- Understand the machining process: Our machining simulation software can help designers visualize the machining process and identify potential problems.
- Choose the right materials: The choice of materials significantly impacts a part’s machinability. Swissturn’s design support for machining can help your designers choose materials that are easy to machine and still meet the required properties.
- Specify the correct tolerances: We help designers specify tolerances achievable with the machining process and meet the required quality standards.
- There are many benefits to using Swissturn’s design support for machining your precision machined components. Some of the key benefits include:
- Improved part quality: Our support helps designers create more machinable, accurate, and consistent parts, leading to improved quality of the finished parts.
- Reduced machining time: Our support allows designers to identify potential problems and optimize the machining process, which leads to reduced machining time and lower costs.
- Increased chances of success: Design support decreases and even eliminates the chance for dimensional errors in parts.
With many years of experience, Swissturn’s engineering and manufacturing teams help many customers by offering design suggestions for their parts. Our teams are happy to work with you on any questions you may have. Some examples of how Swissturn has helped customers include:
- Prevention of thin walls breaking by suggesting smaller hole depth
- Reduction of cycle time by adding drill points at the bottom of holes
- Suggestions of plating and other surface treatments to improve corrosion resistance
- Lead time improving by finding alternative materials
- The making of custom fasteners using ANSI standards