FORUS Industry

At FORUS Machinery, we aim to be the best Machinists in the business.

FORUS never stop looking for fresh and innovative ways to improve the quality of their products and provide customers with the highest-quality CNC machined parts available.

Custom Machining Services

If you’re looking for a machining company in FORUS that offers precise and professional workmanship, we are confident we are the right choice. The selection of materials we are capable of working with is vast, meaning that you don’t have to go from shop to shop to find someone who can complete various projects.

Additionally, whether your machining project is small-scale or large, we have the ability to deliver, using manual machines for smaller quantity orders, and CNC machines for high-quantity.

Looking for a machining shop that can also act as a long-term provider for your business?

We can do that too!

CNC Machinist FORUS

Your Full-Service CNC Machinist Service

CNC Machining is computer numerical control machining, meaning the computer can read blueprints and create your parts more efficiently and consistently. Whether you are mass-producing parts or want a single part that is too small or complicated for manual development, CNC Machining is your best option!

Computer Aided Design

AutoCAD and Inventor

Autodesk AutoCAD and Inventor are the leading software products used for computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting. Our staff are highly trained and proficient at using both programs to design quality parts and components.

When you bring an idea or concept to our team of machinists, they bring it to life with a CAD drawing. This allows you, the customer, to get a visual of your part before it goes into production. It also provides our team with a detailed drawing of your product, ensuring every unit produced is to your exact specifications.

Fusion 360

Autodesk Fusion 360 is the 3D CAD, CAM, and CAE tool of its kind. We use this software to aid in machining, virtually creating tool paths to create your components. Not only are we able to design your parts, but we can also test their fit and motion, perform simulations and make realistic renderings.

Whether you need a complex mould for your product, or perfectly functional parts to manufacture, our CAD and CAM services make it possible. We are proud to specialize in software that provides the best results for our clients!

Learn more about how our Autodesk services can benefit your project. Call us today.

Machining?

Machining is the process used to remove material, typically metal, to create parts for machines, tools, transportation, and more. Machine shops and machinists use equipment like lathes, mills, and drill presses to turn material into useful tools using precise cuts.

Machining techniques

There are two main techniques when it comes to machining operations: subtractive and additive manufacturing. These techniques are used by a machinist to either take away or add material to a part.

Subtractive

Machining is a prototyping and manufacturing process that creates the desired shape by removing unwanted material from a larger piece of material. Since a part is built by taking away material, this process is also known as subtractive manufacturing.

Additive

Additive machining, also known as 3D printing, is a newer approach to production that enables the construction of a three-dimensional object from a digital model. It allows the machinist to create lightweight and strong parts.

Machining Processes

There exist hundreds of different machining operations in order to machine a wide variety of materials in several ways to satisfy perpetually varying market demand. All these machining processes have different capabilities to generate surfaces having different characteristics. Machining processes are enlisted below.

Turning— Basic purpose of turning is to reduce the diameter of a cylindrical job. It utilizes a single point cutting tool, called SPTT, to gradually remove excess layer of material from work surface. The operation is performed in a machine tool called Lathe. Among necessary cutting parameters, cutting velocity is imparted by the rotation of work piece, while feed rate and depth of cut is imparted by the longitudinal and transverse motion of the cutting tool, respectively.

Milling— while turning inherently produces cylindrical surface, milling is used to make flat or stepped surfaces. Milling is performed in Milling Machine and a multi-point cutting tool (called milling cutter) is used here. Here necessary cutting motion is imparted by rotation of cutter, while feed and depth of cut is provided by moving work piece (worktable) in intended direction. With the advancement in milling technique, now-a-days shaping, planning and slotting operations are mostly superseded by milling.

Facing— it is performed to make a surface flat and substantially smooth. Facing can be performed in lathe (for cylindrical work piece only) or in milling machine. Irrespective of the machine tool utilized for operation, facing always produces a flat surface.

Drilling— it is performed to originate a hole in a surface in any orientation. It utilizes a double-point cutting tool called drill. Similar to milling, rotation of drill provides required cutting motion, while movement of table provides necessary feed and depth of cut.

Boring— Purpose of boring operation is to enlarge a hole. So it can increase diameter of an existing hole (either drilled or cast). Usually boring is performed after drilling to enlarge the drilled hole and to improve dimensional accuracy. Boring tool is usually a single point cutter and it can be performed in drilling machine or in dedicated boring machine.

Knurling— a knurled surface is required to reduce chances of slippage while gripping. Such surface can be produced by knurling operation using a form tool called knurl (multi-point cutter).

Grinding— it is actually one abrasive cutting process where a grinding wheel (made of abrasive grains) are used to remove thin layer of material from work surface. It is performed in grinding machine. Although there exists quite a few differences between machining and grinding, grinding is also considered as one machining process that can produce smoother surface.