
Insights
Practical writing for buying engineers and procurement leads, on the problems we are asked to solve most: replacing parts that are no longer made, working out why a part failed, choosing the right process, and keeping established machinery running. Written by people who make the parts, not by a marketing team. New posts are added as we have something useful to say.

Start with a worn, failed or discontinued part. We reconstruct the design and agree improvements before manufacture.

Digital surface capture to support CAD reconstruction and the wider reverse engineering job.

Machine angled features and complex surfaces, with the set-up planned around the critical relationships.

Milled housings, brackets and precision components in metals and engineering plastics.

Stepped shafts, threaded fittings and housings, made to drawing or reverse engineered from a sample.

Bring us the application. Our engineers recommend the material and approach for your prototype or part.

Brackets, panels and enclosures, developed around the bends, interfaces and finished assembly.

Moulded plastic components, with material, tool design and production requirements considered together.

Small, complex metal components where geometry and quantity suit moulding and sintering.

Aluminium housings and components, with casting geometry and any secondary machining planned together.

Custom sections developed for the application, then cut, machined and finished as required.

Manufactured and bought-in components brought together, with the interfaces and checks agreed first.

Welded components and fabrications, planned around material, joint access and distortion control.