When the manufacturing engineering team at an international surgical equipment manufacturer needed to find a way to pull significant costs out of production, they saw an opportunity to bring bone drill holemaking in house. The parts, however, presented a significant challenge, with small diameters, thin part walls, and approaching depth-to-diameter hole ratios of 100:1. The department manager and his team weren’t sure that gundrilling could hold their required tolerances and give them the control of accuracy that they needed. Continue reading ““Drilling Down to the Smallest Diameters | Case Study”“