Most surgical instruments are made in small quantities with much manual labor. Their wide range of variants necessitates small batch sizes. Components are refined, surface-treated, and assembled by hand. If you serve this market, your equipment and processes are designed for maximum retooling flexibility. But as one of my customers recently learned, it's possible and profitable to exploit high-speed milling's low shear forces, lower heat build-up, and better surface qualities to successfully produce these delicate products in large quantities.
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