Pete Marut is a sales engineer and Dale Pereira is a spring estimating engineer at Connecticut Spring & Stamping, 48 Spring Lane, Farmington, CT 06032, 860-677-1341, www.ctspring.com.
During the process of converting fully machined parts to stamped parts with machined features, the lessons learned by medical device manufacturers Aragon Surgical and Avantis Medical Systems and firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson show how each step plays an important role in moving a part from concept to completion at the blazing speeds now considered normal at Connecticut Spring & Stamping.