Most machine shops will evaluate new cutting tools in an effort to reduce machining time, increase tool life, or improve part quality, and sometimes to accomplish all of this. But, Stellar Precision Components Ltd., a Tier 2 aerospace supplier in Jeanette, Penn., did it for an entirely different reason. “We’d just taken an order for some Inconel parts,” recalled production manager Edward Frieze. “None of us were really worried at that point about tool life or making a profit on the job; our only concern then was how the heck could we get them shipped in eight weeks.”

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