How does a Laser Job Shop or Laser Contract Manufacturing Services work?
Tooling plays a key role in laser skiving. As a general rule, laser contract manufacturers will have at least 25-50 laser systems on the production floor in a two shift operation. On the other hand, laser job shops tend to operate in one shift with a handful of lasers. Since this article is dealing with volume manufacturing of medical devices, let’s concentrate on laser contract manufacturing only. Established laser contract manufacturers will have invested in a wide assortment of hard tooling fixtures as an obligatory service for medical device manufacturers. These type of mandatory capitol expenditures, usually several hundred thousands of dollars, allow the laser contract manufacturer to help the medical device company prototype a multitude of design concepts before any production tooling is conceived. For smaller laser job shops, this type of investment is prohibited. Therefore the prospective medical device company should be cautioned on the amount of NRE charges that a laser job
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