Prototype and Short Run Production Machining, aluminum, complex 3D, Azimuth CNC, Rockford, IL

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Azimuth CNC can help you create prototype parts with our experienced staff of project engineers and machinists. Working with your engineering staff, we can machine a functional prototype from a wide variety of materials to meet your design specifications. Our extensive experience enables us to provide suggestions on part manufacturability and cost containment.

When the prototype has been developed and approved, we can use the knowledge, fixturing and machining strategies used to make the prototype to produce your part at a very reasonable cost. We can usually save you money on complex 3D parts compared to production by other methods like casting or molding. As required, we can also supply secondary and finishing operations like anodizing, heat treating, deburring and polishing.

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Prototype & Short Run Production Example · Machining Capabilities · Engineering Support & Secondary Services · Quality Assurance

Prototype & Short Run Production Example

Part: Hydraulic valve manifold
Material: Aluminum billet from certified material
Dimensions: 7-1/2" x 7" x 2-3/8"
Part run: 100 - 200 pieces

	In this project, we machined hydraulic components with many ports on all six sides, made from aluminum billet. These parts were run overnight unattended using the pallet changer on our Mikron Vario machine tool.
	Three parts loaded onto the pallet changer, two with the first operation complete
	Detail of ports and engraving

Machining Capabilities

Tolerance		As close as +/- .0002"

Materials		• Aluminum - All grades • Tool Steel - All grades including tool steel, Finkl FX, D2, S7 • Hard cutting of Tool steel up to 60 Rockwell • Stainless steel - All grades including 300 Series, 400 Series, 17-4PH, 15-5PH • Titanium • Tungsten • Inconel and other nickel alloys • Plastics • Nylons

Material Certifications		Certified materials used upon customer request with full traceability if required

Machining Equipment List		Deckel Maho Gildemeister DMU 100T Full 5 Axis Universal Machining Center Capacity: 42.5" X, 28" Y, 28" Z Spindle Speed: 18,000 rpm Feed Rate: 591 ipm Laser tool setter and touch probe Mikron UCP 600 Vario with Integrated Automation & 120 Tool Tower Full 5 Axis Vertical Machining Center Capacity: 23.6” X, 17.7” Y, 17.7” Z Spindle Speed: 20,000 RPM Laser tool setter and touch probe Deckel Maho Gildemeister DMU 80-P Hy-dyn Full 5 Axis Universal Machining Center Capacity: 31.5” X, 31.5” Y, 31.5” Z Spindle Speed: 18,000 RPM Feed Rate: 591 ipm Laser tool setter and touch probe Deckel Maho Gildemeister DMU 50 eVolution Full 5 Axis Universal Machining Center Capacity: 19.7" X, 16.5" Y, 15" Z Spindle Speed: 18,000 RPM Feed Rate: 787 IPM Laser tool setter and touch probe Mikron VCE-1000 Pro 3 Axis High Speed Machining Center Capacity: 40" X, 22" Y, 23.5" Z Spindle Speed: 10,000 rpm Laser tool setter and touch probe

Engineering Support & Secondary Services

Secondary and Finishing Operations

Located in the machine shop capital of the world, we have established partnerships with many ISO certified companies and can provide parts complete with the secondary and finishing operations you require, including:

• Heat treating
• Plating
• Polishing
• Painting
• Deburring
• Anodizing
• Passivating

Engineering Support

We can accept anything you have, including a drawing on a napkin or a clay model stuck to cardboard. (We’re not making this up, this really happens.) Some of the services we can provide:

• Reverse Engineering
• 3D surface and solid modeling
• Process development
• Turnkey part development & implementation

Preferred File Formats

You can send CAD drawings and models by email if they are 10Mb or smaller in size, or upload to our FTP site if they are larger than 10Mb.We prefer the native file format. Digital formats we can handle include:

• AutoCAD
• Autodesk Inventor
• Pro-E
• SDRC Ideas
• SolidWorks
• IGES / VDA
• Delcam DGK
• Rhino 3DM

• SolidEdge
• Cimatron
• CATIA
• Unigraphics
• Parasolid
• STEP
• ACIS

Industries Served

• Aerospace
• Agricultural
• Automotive
• Communications
• Packaging
• Pattern makers

• Forging
• Furniture
• Medical
• Military
• Plastics
• Tool makers

Quality Assurance

Quality Equipment List		DEA IOTA CMM Renishaw probe PowerINSPECT software Romer Arm Infinite 6’ inspection arm with PowerINSPECT software Mitutoyo Inspection Microscope Readouts to .00001 On Machine Verification Critical dimensions checked on the machine tool with touch probe Video Microscope Microscope with digital video camera Manual inspection equipment Miscellaneous pin gauges, micrometers, gauge blocks, etc.

Quality Certification		Certified to ISO 9001:2000 Approval certificate number: 06.173.2

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