How Reata Engineering Expertly Manufactures Titanium Medical Components
It’s no secret that we excel at manufacturing complex parts. But we do more than reliably machine the kinds of parts that keep our customers up at night. We also work with challenging materials that other contract manufacturing companies try their best to avoid: materials like hardened stainless steel, hardened steel, and—one of our personal […]
Creative Solutions to Sourcing Problems in Contract Manufacturing
The most important function of a job shop today is figuring out how to keep customers up and running. Material sourcing and supply chain problems are making life difficult for everyone in manufacturing right now, and yet the world must go on. Now more than ever, job shops must be willing to do whatever it […]
CNC Machining Case Study: TITAN CSR™ Retractor System for the Medical Industry
Occasionally, our team at Reata Engineering has the chance to collaborate on something so special that it really drives home why we do what we do. In a recent partnership with LINK Project Development (LINK), we had the opportunity to bring our collective abilities in solving complex design, manufacturing, and assembly challenges to the table. […]
How Machine Monitoring Technology Helps Productivity for Contract Manufacturing
“What gets measured gets managed.” – Peter Drucker At Reata Engineering, we firmly subscribe to this philosophy. As part of our ongoing mission to be a digital contract manufacturing company, we leverage a number of different technologies to improve efficiency and productivity on the shop floor. Not only do those improvements make our business operate […]
To Cast or Not to Cast? 4 Reasons to Convert from Casting to Contract Machining for Low-Volume Parts
Do you really need to cast your parts, or can you rely exclusively on contract machining instead? Casting, which consists of pouring a liquid material into a mold and allowing it to solidify, has been a go-to manufacturing solution for thousands of years. But thanks to advances in complex CNC machining tooling and technology, it’s […]
5 Ways Reata Engineering Solves Material Sourcing and Supply Chain Problems
If there’s one big manufacturing takeaway from this last year, it’s that the global supply chain is far more precarious than we like to imagine it to be. No matter what industry you’re in, you’ve probably been impacted by supply chain disruptions like price increases, shortages, and months-long lead times. The reasons for these disruptions […]