The Second Shift Blog

Xometry's Buy now. Pay later. feature is designed to improve your business’ cash flow by eliminating the need to pay upfront for tooling and materials.

What is a gauge anyways, and why is it such a strange unit of measurement? Can we even call a gauge a form of measurement?

In spite of these manufacturing workforce challenges—or perhaps because of them—the market is growing and advanced manufacturing is on the cusp of a renaissance.

5 practiced tips from Xometry’s 3D Printing experts including strategies for batch splitting, mitigating downtime, training workers, shipping, and collecting feedback data.

In this episode of Smarter Machining, Tim Bowman provides some quick tips on planning for a holiday shutdown and some great tricks to help you get back up and running with minimal downtime after your holiday break.

Arizona-based machine shop Todd White Metal Works started with just one machine in a garage and a couple of jobs a month. Now owner Todd White has a full-fledged machine shop, a passion for his work, and financial security for his family of five.

The Xometry Finishing Service allows customers and Manufacturing Partners alike to send quote requests to a select group of Xometry’s post-processing manufacturing partners at once. Then, you can receive and evaluate quotes and manage orders in one convenient location.

Nailing the correct Tap and Drill combo is a bit of a mathematical pain in the touche, but will deliver results you can really get behind.

This ebook is for shop operators, shop managers, and machinists alike, and reveals tips to improve machine shop efficiency like implementing lean manufacturing principles to improving floor management with software.

We’re continuing the conversation about what might be causing some of those sticky, chipped, stripped, and poorly finished tapping experiences we all run into from time to time.