by Accurate Machine & Tool Team | Oct 13, 2026 | Aerospace Compliance & Quality, Aerospace Machining
An aerospace part without documentation is just a piece of metal with no traceable history — and traceability is often the actual product, as much as the part itself. Quick summary: Aerospace parts typically ship with material certifications, a Certificate of...
by James Wright | Oct 10, 2026 | Aerospace Compliance & Quality, Aerospace Machining, Manufacturing Technology
Passivation removes free iron from the surface of stainless steel parts so the chromium oxide layer can form properly and do its job — resist corrosion. The process is simple. The spec confusion isn’t. Aerospace drawings call out ASTM A967, ASTM A380, or sometimes...
by James Wright | Sep 21, 2026 | Aerospace Compliance & Quality, Blog, Defense Manufacturing
ITAR and CMMC get treated as interchangeable in casual conversation, and they’re not. One governs who’s allowed to touch defense technical data. The other governs how securely you have to protect it once you do. Quick summary: ITAR (22 CFR Parts 120–130) is an...
by Accurate Machine & Tool Team | Sep 15, 2026 | Aerospace Compliance & Quality, Aerospace Machining, Blog, CNC Machining
Open ten aerospace drawings and you’ll find ±0.001” on features that have no business needing it. That’s not because engineers are being careless — it’s because tight tolerance has become the safe default in a risk-averse industry. The problem is that “safe” and...
by James Wright | Sep 11, 2026 | Aerospace Compliance & Quality, Defense Manufacturing
ITAR gets talked about as though it’s a certification you pass once and hang on the wall. It’s not. It’s a set of federal export control regulations that restrict who can access defense-related technical data — including engineering drawings, CAD files, process...
by James Wright | Sep 4, 2026 | Aerospace Compliance & Quality, Aerospace Machining, CNC Machining, Manufacturing & Cost Estimating
Most CNC quotes arrive as a single number per part — unit price times quantity, done. That works fine for simple commercial jobs. Aerospace quotes are different. They may break the cost into line items because different parts of the cost behave differently: some are...
