Engine mounts, chassis parts, and machined components for assembly lines.
High-strength fasteners, landing gear parts, and structural assemblies.
Forged housings, armor brackets, and mission-critical structural parts.
Precision housings, actuator frames, and armature linkages for automation systems.
Metal frames, brackets, and assemblies for appliances and home equipment.
Busbar holders, battery pack parts, and lightweight structural enclosures.
Solar mounting parts, wind turbine brackets, and battery enclosures.
Valve bodies, flange blocks, and downhole drilling components.
Large welded frames, PEB structures, and assemblies for industrial equipment.
Durable transformers built for consistent performance, energy efficiency, and stable power regulation.
Frigate’s industrial-grade enclosures provide durable, customizable protection with efficient thermal management for high-performance applications.
High-performance cables and wires engineered for durability and seamless connectivity across applications.
Custom-built wiring harnesses for secure connections and streamlined installations.
Precision-engineered busbars for efficient power distribution and minimal energy loss.
Robust connectors designed for secure locking, reliable conductivity, and long-term performance.
Diverse solutions covering automotive, electrical, mechanical, and industrial needs with precision-built components.
CNC machining delivers micron precision and tight tolerances for complex geometry.
Frigate CNC Machining offers high-precision, custom solutions for complex casting geometries. Multi-axis capabilities ensure tight tolerances and optimal surface finishes.
Sheet metal fabrication uses laser cutting, punching, and bending for precision.
Frigate Sheet Metal Fabrication utilizes advanced laser cutting and press brake technology for custom casting applications. Tight tolerances, superior welds, and high-strength materials ensure structural integrity.
Injection molding produces high-precision parts with consistent quality.
Frigate Injection Molding delivers custom-engineered parts with micron-level precision and structural integrity. Specialized molds maintain tight tolerances for complex geometries and high-stress applications.
Precision casting ensures accurate, high-quality parts.
Forging services improve material strength with precise tolerances.
Frigate Casting Services provides custom casting with tight tolerances and complex geometries. We enhance material properties using advanced metallurgy, ensuring strength and wear resistance. Our precision methods support high-performance aerospace, automotive, and industrial applications.
End-to-end part production from samples to bulk supply.
Ready-to-use assemblies built to exact fit and function.
Heavy-duty fabrication with high-strength materials for demanding applications. Robust welding for maximum structural durability.
Automated depaneling systems often suffer from repeatability loss due to fixture deflection, thermal cycling, and spindle instability. The PCB Router Bit Guide constrains bit movement within a fixed lateral envelope, reducing cumulative path deviation to below ±5 µm. This stabilization ensures routing dimensions remain compliant with IPC-2221 tolerances, even in high-volume SMT workflows involving multi-board panels.
Composite boards using filled PTFE, ceramic-filled epoxy, or polyimide-glass substrates exhibit uneven mechanical resistance during routing. The PCB Router Bit Guide enables smooth material engagement by enforcing constant feed angles and entry arcs across heterogeneous layer stacks. This eliminates high-stress contact points that typically cause fiber pull-out, edge cratering, or laminate fissures in high-speed digital and RF board builds.
Prolonged routing without lateral stabilization causes bit eccentricity, edge chipping, and early carbide failure. The PCB Router Bit Guide utilizes close-tolerance sleeve interfaces to restrict radial vibration and torsional movement at the bit base. This reduces mechanical fatigue on cutting flutes and maintains edge symmetry, extending tool life in abrasive substrates and multi-pass routing operations.
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Used to maintain routing precision in high-density interconnect boards with microvias and fine-pitch components during mechanical depaneling.
Ensures clean edge definition in low-loss PTFE or ceramic-filled substrates to preserve controlled impedance and signal performance.
Maintains vertical tool path integrity when separating boards with 8+ layers to avoid internal layer shifting and barrel distortion.
Enables accurate tool navigation along rigid-flex transition zones without damaging polyimide layers or embedded copper circuitry.
Supports tool stability during routing of high-Tg and thick copper boards where thermal buildup and tool deflection are critical risks.
Used in inline mechanical depaneling equipment to ensure consistent breakout geometry across densely populated, high-throughput PCB panels.
PCBs with minimal clearance between component bodies and panel edges require extremely precise routing paths with minimal lateral overrun. The PCB Router Bit Guide incorporates compact profile geometry and depth-indexed guide collars to allow safe routing within 0.5 mm of critical package outlines. This capability is essential in assemblies involving edge connectors, RF shields, or tight stencil keep-out zones.
Uncontrolled routing generates fine particulate debris including glass fibers and conductive dust, which can compromise downstream coating, wash, and soldering processes. The PCB Router Bit Guide constrains tool motion within a deterministic trajectory, optimizing chip flow for localized vacuum extraction. This minimizes contaminant spread, lowers ESD risk, and reduces manual post-routing surface preparation requirements.
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Frigate’s PCB Router Bit Guide uses precision-ground guide bushings to hold bit trajectory within ±5 µm across multilayer stacks. This ensures layer-to-layer alignment is not disrupted during mechanical separation. Even in 12+ layer boards, via barrel integrity and dielectric spacing remain unaffected. It is especially effective in designs with embedded capacitance or backdrilled vias.
Frigate’s guide system stabilizes bit motion across rigid and flexible zones without stressing the transition area. It supports controlled Z-depth routing to avoid damaging polyimide layers or plated-through flex zones. The guide accommodates bend zones by minimizing lateral drift near the interface. This is critical in aerospace and wearable applications with dynamic flexing.
Frigate designs its Router Bit Guide to interface precisely with robotic spindles used in inline SMT environments. It maintains uniform routing depth and lateral tracking under continuous thermal and mechanical cycling. This helps reduce board-to-board dimensional variation and panel scrap rate. The result is smoother handoff to downstream processes like soldering or conformal coating.
Yes, Frigate uses wear-resistant materials in the guide interface to withstand abrasive particulate from ceramic or glass-filled substrates. It reduces bit deflection, which is common when routing hard fillers. This minimizes edge cratering and surface micro-cracks. The guide is suitable for RF, radar, and mmWave boards with strict dielectric boundary control.
Frigate offers application-specific guide geometries with offset collars and reduced outer diameters for tight component clearances. Custom fixtures can be designed to align with fiducials or mechanical datums on irregularly shaped panels. These guides allow precision routing near sensitive areas like test pads or gold-finger edges. This level of control is essential in low-profile or edge-interfacing board designs.
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