When the manufacturing engineering team at medical device manufacturer ConMed, needed to find a way to pull significant costs out of production, he 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. Manager Kevin Burch 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”“