Beyond watchmaking

You are only as good as your last job. Yesterday afternoon, Josh started a new medical part project. A few hours later, the part was designed, the mill was tooled, holding jig made - and part machined.   Here is what it looks like:

And here is the actual photo, of the part, in his hand.

The thickness of the part is 40 microns, about half of the thickness of a human hair. Diameter: less than half a millimetre.   He posted the part on his LinkedIn page, and it went viral, with 46,000 views. Followers who comment on LinkedIn are actually people in engineering and machining, CEOs in manufacturing, many of whom have never seen such a small part.

Testimony to Manufactured in Australia. The size and complexity of this component takes us beyond watchmaking because while some parts in the watchmaking industry are about this size, they are not nearly as complex, nor challenging to make.