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April 13, 2026
By Eric Xie
Look at any modern aerospace or medical device blueprint, and you will see a terrifying trend: engineers...
April 11, 2026
By Eric Xie
Walk onto any machine shop floor that is trying to run Ti-6Al-4V without the proper setup, and you will...
April 7, 2026
By Eric Xie
If you look at aerospace CAD models from the early 2000s and compare them to today’s blueprints, one...
April 6, 2026
By Eric Xie
When a biomedical engineer sends me a CAD file for a spinal implant or a custom bone plate, there is...
March 31, 2026
By Eric Xie
I still remember the first Ti-6Al-4V job I programmed back in 2001. I treated the titanium billet like...
March 30, 2026
By Eric Xie
When I first stepped into the custom parts industry back in 2001, machining titanium felt like a dark...
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...
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