
Medical devices are critical products: lives depend on them. Your company's life-saving products rely on the quality of the components you specify and the validated processes of the suppliers you appoint. Consistency of quality is crucial. Your suppliers must maintain that quality while hitting production deadlines with unerring precision. But you and your team are still under huge pressure to keep costs down; it can feel like a never-ending conflict of priorities. And yet many of those costs should never be there in the first place.

In the world of CNC machining, precision is paramount. One key aspect of achieving precision is specifying tolerances. Tolerances define the allowable variation in dimensions for a given part. In this blog post, we will explore what tolerances are, why they matter in CNC machining and how to effectively specify them for optimal results.