Swiss Machining Services
Frigate’s Swiss Machining (Swiss Turning) delivers precision with tight tolerances and complex features. Advanced CNC lathes ensure high accuracy and exceptional surface finishes in production.Â
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Advantages of Swiss Machining Services
Sub-Micron Tolerance Capability
Swiss machining achieves sub-micron tolerances, allowing for the production of ultra-precise components with minimal deviations, even in high-volume runs.
Multi-Axis Simultaneous Machining
Using multi-axis CNC controls enables simultaneous machining of complex features, enhancing flexibility and reducing cycle times for intricate parts.
Minimized Tool Deflection
Swiss lathes support the workpiece directly, minimizing tool deflection and maintaining higher accuracy during machining, even with long or thin parts.
Superior Thermal Stability
Swiss machining's precision mechanics and advanced temperature control systems minimize thermal expansion, maintaining consistent accuracy in demanding environments.
Custom Swiss Machining (Swiss Turning) Services
Custom Swiss Machining offers the precision needed to meet your most demanding specifications. With advanced CNC-controlled lathes, intricate geometries and sub-micron tolerances are easily achieved, ensuring parts meet exacting standards. Swiss turning minimizes tool deflection and enhances surface finishes, whether working with small, intricate components or high-volume production. The multi-axis capabilities allow for simultaneous machining of multiple features, reducing cycle times and improving efficiency. Rely on Swiss machining for high precision, reduced waste, and efficient turnaround times in your production process.Â
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Our Swiss Machining Process
The process begins with loading the raw material into a bar feeder, which is automatically fed into the Swiss machine.Â
The machine is programmed with precise specifications, including part geometry, tolerances, and machining operations to ensure accuracy.Â
The material is clamped securely while a rotating tool begins turning the workpiece, removing excess material to shape the component.Â
As the workpiece rotates, tools move along multiple axes, machining complex features, holes, and contours with high precision.Â
Additional tools may perform secondary operations like drilling, tapping, or threading without removing the part from the machine.Â
Once machining is complete, the part undergoes finishing processes like polishing or deburring, followed by thorough inspection for accuracy and quality.Â
Swiss Machining Materials
Swiss machining is a precise manufacturing process that achieves tight tolerances. Advanced CNC technology and multi-axis capabilities ensure accuracy and efficiency in production.Â
Lightweight and versatile, aluminum alloys are commonly used for aerospace, automotive, and electronic components. The material’s ease of machinability allows Swiss turning to produce intricate parts quickly while maintaining excellent surface finishes.Â
Known for its corrosion resistance and strength, stainless steel is ideal for applications requiring durability in harsh environments. Swiss machining excels at producing precise, complex stainless steel components with tight tolerances.Â
Known for their strength-to-weight ratio and resistance to high temperatures, titanium alloys are used in demanding industries like aerospace and medicine. Swiss machining can achieve precision in these tough materials, ensuring exact part geometry and minimal waste.Â
Brass offers excellent machinability and corrosion resistance, making it ideal for precision components in plumbing, electrical, and automotive applications. Swiss machining creates fine threads and small, intricate features with ease in brass.Â
Zinc alloys are commonly used for die casting and precision machining due to their strength, corrosion resistance, and ease of machining. Swiss turning can produce complex, high-precision parts with a smooth surface finish.Â
Copper and its alloys are favored for electrical conductivity and thermal properties. Swiss machining provides the fine control needed to produce highly accurate and intricate parts, particularly for electrical and thermal components.Â
Used in high-temperature environments such as aerospace and chemical processing, nickel alloys provide excellent strength and resistance to heat and corrosion. Swiss turning can machine these tough materials with high precision, maintaining tight tolerances for demanding applications.Â
Certain engineering plastics and polymers can be machined using Swiss turning, offering lightweight solutions with good wear resistance and chemical stability. These materials are used for medical, food processing, and high-precision industrial applications.Â
Eliminating Deflection Problems in Long or Thin Parts
Swiss machining addresses the challenge of producing parts with sub-micron tolerances, even for complex geometries. Frigate’s advanced multi-axis CNC lathes enable precise tool control, ensuring consistent accuracy and minimal deviations. This solution effectively reduces rework and maintains high-quality standards for parts with tight specifications.Â
Compliance for Swiss Machining Services
Frigate’s Swiss Machining (Swiss Turning) services are built on technical excellence and compliance with global industry standards. We ensure that every precision component we produce meets the highest quality and regulatory requirements. Our Swiss Turning processes are optimized for accuracy and efficiency, making us a trusted partner in industries that demand top-tier performance.Â
Ensures adherence to high-quality management standards for consistent product performance.Â
Medical device compliance, focusing on safety and precision in the healthcare sector.Â
Compliance with European regulations, ensuring products are free from hazardous substances.Â
Aerospace industry standards, ensuring precision and reliability for aerospace components.Â
Conformity with EU safety, health, and environmental protection requirements.Â
Meets safety standards for products used in electrical and electronic applications.Â
Environmental management certification, ensuring sustainable production practices.Â
Tolerance for Swiss Machining Services
The deviation of the radial surface from the true axis of rotation, ensuring smooth operation of rotating components.Â
The deviation of the axial surface from the true axis, critical for components with rotational movement.Â
The variation in the location of a feature from its theoretical position, critical for alignment and assembly.Â
The deviation of a feature’s circularity along its axis, ensuring tight rotational fits.Â
Ensures two surfaces or axes are parallel within the specified tolerance, important for precise fits and alignment.Â
The degree to which a surface is free from warping or curvature, ensuring precise mating of components.Â
The uniformity of the concentricity of cylindrical parts, critical for high-precision assemblies.Â
The variation in thread spacing to ensure correct engagement with mating threads, essential for sealing and fastening components.Â
The tolerance applied to the internal diameter of a hole, ensuring proper fitting for shafts or pins.Â
Controls the fit and alignment of spline features for efficient torque transfer and mechanical alignment.Â
The variation between the centerlines of circular features, ensuring balanced rotating parts.Â
The allowable variation in the surface profile, controlling the shape and smoothness for functional components.Â
The tolerance for angular cuts at the edges of components, ensuring correct fitment for assembly.Â
The precision in the placement of holes within a component, crucial for accurate assembly.Â
A combined tolerance that accounts for both axial and radial deviations in a feature’s rotational symmetry.Â
Quality Testing Standards for Swiss Machining Services
Ensures the conicity or taper of parts is within the required tolerance, critical for components that must fit into specific geometries like valves or shafts.Â
Measures the radial displacement of a rotating part to ensure it maintains its intended circular path without excessive deviation.Â
Measures the hardness of the material to ensure it meets the required specification, ensuring durability and performance.Â
Evaluates the material's ability to withstand stress without permanent deformation, essential for load-bearing components.Â
Tests the material’s ability to absorb shock or impact without fracturing, crucial for parts subject to sudden forces.Â
Measures internal stresses within the part, which can influence performance and dimensional stability over time.Â
Measures large-scale variations in the surface, which can affect assembly, sealing, or component fit.Â
Evaluates how materials expand or contract with temperature changes, ensuring dimensional stability in high-temperature applications.Â
Simulates repeated cyclic loading to evaluate the material’s ability to withstand fatigue without failure, essential for components under continuous stress.Â
Measures the magnetic properties of a part to ensure there is no unwanted magnetism that could interfere with mechanical or electronic components.Â
Tests the part's ability to withstand bending without cracking or breaking, critical for parts that require flexibility.Â
Ensures that any coatings (e.g., plating, anodizing) are properly bonded to the surface, preventing degradation or peeling during use.Â
Measures the stability of part dimensions over extended periods to ensure that no undesired variations occur during service or processing.Â
Tests the part’s resistance to wear or failure under vibration conditions, important for components in rotating or vibrating machinery.Â
Detects internal voids or porosity in the part, ensuring that it has no defects that could lead to part failure under stress.Â
Analyzes the material’s microstructure to ensure it aligns with the desired mechanical properties and material consistency.Â
Measures deviations from a perfectly flat surface, critical for components that must mate with other precision parts.Â
Precision in Medical Component Manufacturing with Swiss Machining
A major industry challenge is achieving the extreme precision needed for medical components, where even the smallest deviation can affect functionality. Swiss machining addresses this by providing high accuracy for intricate medical parts such as implants, surgical tools, and devices. With multi-axis capabilities and automated tool changes, Swiss turning creates complex geometries in hard-to-machine materials like titanium and stainless steel. Frigate’s Swiss machining technology ensures the reliable production of complex parts with the exact accuracy required for medical applications.Â
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What You Get
↓ 7-8%
OPS COST
↓ 2-3%
COGM
3X
Aggregation
↑ 25%
Machinery Utilisation
↓ 50%
Expedition
↑ 30%
Frigater Revenue
Optimizing Cycle Times for Complex High-Volume Parts
High-volume production often results in extended cycle times and quality inconsistencies. Frigate’s Swiss machining process optimizes throughput without sacrificing precision. Automated multi-tool setups reduce cycle times for better efficiency. Even large batches of complex components maintain consistent quality throughout production. These capabilities ensure deadlines are met while maintaining high standards of accuracy.Â
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Check all our Frequently Asked Question
Frigate utilizes multi-axis CNC machines that precisely control tool movement, minimizing deviations and ensuring sub-micron tolerance levels for complex geometries.Â
Yes, Frigate's Swiss turning capabilities support long, slender parts by maintaining tool stability and minimizing deflection during machining, ensuring high precision.Â
Frigate’s Swiss Machining is designed for continuous, high-speed operation and can handle large batches of intricate parts with consistent quality and minimal downtime.Â
Frigate’s Swiss turning process is optimized for materials prone to work hardening. It uses specialized cutting tools and techniques that ensure precise cuts without material damage or tool wear.Â
Using advanced programming and multi-tool setups, Frigate’s Swiss machining minimizes cycle time, allowing for simultaneous operations and efficient production without sacrificing dimensional accuracy.Â
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