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March 28, 2026
By Eric Xie
As a CNC machining engineer with over a decade of experience in the aerospace and medical device manufacturing...
March 25, 2026
By Eric Xie
When designing lightweight components for mechatronics, automotive, or aerospace applications, magnesium...
March 24, 2026
By Eric Xie
Let’s skip the textbook definitions. When mechatronics engineers come to me looking to shave weight off...
March 22, 2026
By Eric Xie
You just engineered a brilliant, lightweight housing for a new aerospace device. You specified AZ31B...
March 22, 2026
By Eric Xie
There is a very specific, blinding white flash that happens right before a $150,000 5-axis mill is completely...
March 19, 2026
By Eric Xie
Last month, I watched a junior machinist scrap a $400 block of AZ31B magnesium. He treated it like standard...
March 18, 2026
By Eric Xie
I had a hardware founder on a call last week who was just about ready to pull the plug on his new product...
March 18, 2026
By Eric Xie
Let’s talk about what Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) really looks like on the shop floor these...
March 13, 2026
By Eric Xie
As a manufacturing engineer, one of the most frequent points of failure I see when hardware startups...
March 10, 2026
By Eric Xie
I spend half my week reviewing CAD files for commercial drones, and the story is almost always the same....
March 8, 2026
By Eric Xie
As a hardware manufacturing consultant, the most common panicked email I get from startup founders usually...
February 28, 2026
By Eric Xie
I’ve lost count of how many times a client has sent us a CAD file for a complex enclosure, expecting...
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