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The same part, from any shop, every reorder.

We engineer every job once into a complete Job Packet — toolpaths, fixturing, probing, inspection plan. Every qualified shop in our network runs that same packet, so your reorder matches your first run.

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Run a CNC shop? We send you the job, not the RFQ.

Drawing of a machined housingTop view of a machined aluminum housing: a 4.000 by 2.500 inch plate with a 3.000 by 1.500 inch pocket, 0.500 inch deep, and four counterbored holes on a 3.500 by 2.000 inch pattern, positioned within 0.005 inch of datums A, B and C. Material 6061-T6.634X Ø.201 THRUCBORE Ø.332 × .200 DPØ.005ABCPOCKET 3.000 × 1.500.500 DP · R.125 TYPMATL 6061-T6 · UNLESS NOTED ±.005 · BREAK EDGES .010

One Job PacketAny shop · every run

Toolpaths
Verified once, posted to each shop
Fixturing
The same soft-jaw program
Inspection
The same plan and report
Reorders
No re-engineering
  • 01

    A price in minutes

    3-axis milled parts up to 12 × 8 × 4 in come back priced, with ship-date options.

  • 02

    A guaranteed ship date

    On catalog orders the date is written into the order. Miss it, and you’re credited.

  • 03

    Custom work, quoted fast

    Turning, 5-axis, assemblies and more — quoted within two business days.

  • 04

    Paperwork included

    Material certs and a dimensional report ship with every order. FAI on request.

Every new shop starts your part from scratch.

Each shop re-quotes, re-programs, re-fixtures and writes its own inspection plan — for the first order, and again for the reorder. That’s where the weeks go, and why a part from a second shop rarely matches the first.

Scroll to see all twenty-five days →

The 2/25 problemA horizontal bar dimensioned twenty-five days overall. Two days at the left, filled solid, are labelled cutting. The remaining twenty-three days are hatched and labelled everything else, subdivided into quoting, DFM review, CAM programming, fixture design, setup, first article, documentation, and coordination.EVERYTHING ELSECUTTINGQUOTINGDFMREVIEWCAMPROGRAMMINGFIXTUREDESIGNSETUPFIRSTARTICLEDOCUMENTATIONCOORDINATION
A typical low-volume machining order: about two days of cutting inside about twenty-five days of lead time.

So we do that engineering once — and every shop runs it.

See how it works
Drawing of a spindle in the cutSide elevation of a machining center spindle and tool holder with a half-inch end mill cutting a stepped pocket into a block of 6061-T6 aluminum clamped in a vise, feeding to the right. The material already removed is shown as a phantom line.FEEDSPINDLETOOL HOLDERØ.500 END MILL6061-T6 STOCKVISESIDE ELEVATION · STOCK IN SECTION · REMOVED MATERIAL SHOWN PHANTOM
The two days that matter: metal on the machine.

Centralize the engineering. Distribute the cutting.

We do the engineering once, centrally. Independent American shops do what they’re best at: running machines and making great parts.

One Job Packet, any shop, the same partA single Job Packet, revision A, flows to Shop A, Shop B and Shop C. Each shop makes an identical part from it. A reorder runs the same packet again, with no re-engineering.JOB PACKET · REV AENGINEERED ONCESHOP ASHOP BSHOP CREV AREV AREV ATHE SAME PARTREORDER · SAME PACKET · NO RE-ENGINEERING
  1. Datum AA

    Engineered once

    DFM, CAM programming, fixturing and the inspection plan are done centrally — and every program is verified in simulation before it reaches a machine.

  2. Datum BB

    Run the same way, anywhere

    Every shop in the network uses the same workholding and runs the same complete Job Packet — so the part from one shop matches the part from the next.

  3. Datum CC

    Shipped on the date

    If a machine goes down, the job moves to open capacity at another shop. That’s why we can put the date in writing.

Everything a shop needs to make your part. In one package.

Programs, setup sheets, fixture plan, tool list, probing routines and the inspection plan — twelve artifacts, verified and released together. A shop that has never seen your part can run it without a phone call.

Praetore Job Packet mark

12 artifacts · 1 revision · 0 phone calls

  • 01

    Cover sheet

    Delivered as: 1 page

  • 02

    Customer print + model

    Delivered as: PDF + STEP

  • 03

    Process plan

    Delivered as: Structured doc

  • 04

    Verified NC programs

    Delivered as: G-code per op

  • 05

    Simulation record

    Delivered as: Video + report

  • 06

    Setup sheets

    Delivered as: Illustrated pages

  • 07

    Fixture plan

    Delivered as: Programs + drawing

  • 08

    Tool list

    Delivered as: Structured table

  • 09

    Probing routines

    Delivered as: Macro programs

  • 10

    Inspection plan

    Delivered as: Form + CMM program

  • 11

    Packaging & ship spec

    Delivered as: 1 page

  • 12

    Acceptance criteria

    Delivered as: 1 page

  • Reorders match the first run

    The packet is already released and proven. Reorder and the same toolpaths, fixturing and inspection plan run again — at any shop — and you never pay for the engineering twice.

  • Batching lowers your price

    Parts that share material and fixturing run in one setup, and the savings are split with you.

  • Quality is built in

    Probe checks and the inspection plan travel with the job, so every critical dimension is measured.

For buyers

Send us a part

Upload a CAD file. We engineer it once, and every run after — at any shop in the network — is the same part. Catalog parts are priced in minutes; custom work is quoted within two business days.

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For shops

Run jobs, not quotes

We send American shops programmed, verified jobs. No quoting, no programming, no fees — and you’re paid on delivery.

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