Mechanical Engineering Blog

Fractory, a platform focusing on sheet metal production services, has raised a 7-figure sum. The seed round investment comes only half a year after the previous round. Based on the […]

Metals and advances in manufacturing processes gave us the industrial revolution. This lead to an exponential growth of human civilisation bringing us where we are today. Today, different types of […]

What if I told you that you can save at least £10,000 per engineer annually? We’ll show you the maths behind it in this article. Manufacturing cost reduction is usually […]

We decided to compare our on-demand manufacturing platform to a few of our competitors. You may notice that the list of competitors is pretty short. While there’s quite a few […]

Copper alloys have great material properties useful for many applications. Pure copper, however, has been one of the most important metals for the last 6000 years. Comparing it to other […]

We carried out a survey directed at people using manufacturing as a service. The objective was to see the manufacturing industry’s pain-points from a customer’s view. We’ll take a look […]

Finally the day has arrived! Automated quotes for our metal bending service are now live. All you have to do is upload a .STEP file of your sheet metal part […]

Fractory has added another 3 members to the team. We are constantly looking to improve our services. This encompasses technical support and user experience. Therefore, 2 more sales engineers have […]

Free CAD software is what you’re looking for? Not everyone has access to professional modelling tools. But napkin scribbles won’t do it for manufacturing purposes. If you cannot find a […]

For a regular engineer, the most sure-fire way to actually know the price of a project is through fucking up. After the client gives negative feedback, your boss asks you […]