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How a job actually runs at inflpanjlott.com

Four stages, each ending in something you can hold or read. The point of writing it out like this is simple: a finishing supplier who cannot tell you what happens on their floor is asking you to trust a black box. Scroll the stages — the rail on the left follows your position.

Route

Four stages, four deliverables

Each stage has an output you receive. A written scope, a first article, a finished batch, a signed report. If a stage cannot produce its output, inflpanjlott.com stops and tells you rather than pushing forward and hoping.

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01 · Audit

Scope, in writing, before anything moves

Send a drawing, a sample or honestly a phone photo with a coin next to the part. inflpanjlott.com comes back within one working day with the route we would use, the tolerance that is physically reachable in that alloy, the price range and a realistic date. If the part is a bad fit for the finish you asked about, you hear it in this message rather than at the invoice.

We ask three questions every time: what is the material, what does the part do in service, and what does the part look like right now. The third one is the one that changes the price most, and it is the one people forget to answer.

Two engineers reviewing a technical drawing and a sample metal part on a table during a finishing audit

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02 · Spectrum

Media, fixture and first article

This is where the job is decided. We choose the abrasive or the media, build the fixturing, and finish one piece to the full specification. You get a photograph and a measurement sheet within 48 hours. If the first article is not right, nothing has been spent on a batch — this stage exists precisely to catch expensive mistakes while they are still cheap.

Fixtures stay in our rack and get reused. That is why the second, third and twentieth order for the same part costs less per piece than the first: you are not paying to have the same jaws designed twice.

A technician comparing abrasive grit samples of different grades on a steel plate

48 hour first articlephoto plus sheetfixtures reused

03 · Finish

Batch finishing with checks every ten pieces

The batch runs in the same setup as the first article, with the same media, pressure, time and temperature. We check a piece every ten pieces — if a reading drifts, we stop the batch and find out why before the drift reaches your receiving dock. A lot that is 95 per cent perfect is not a lot, it is a problem you will hear about from your own customer.

Shift change does not reset the process. Parameters, media age and bath chemistry are written down at handover, so the operator on the night shift is running the job you approved rather than a version of it.

A fine polishing wheel on a bench polishing a small metal component with polishing compound

10 piece checkslogged parametersdrift stops the batch

04 · Handover

Report, packing, tracking, same day

Final readings, a report signed by the operator who ran the job, protective packing and a tracking number — all on the day the lot ships. inflpanjlott.com packs for the journey, not for the shelf: vapour-inhibited bags for stainless, foam nests for lapped faces, and a crate label your dock can read from a few metres away.

If something later turns out to be outside the agreed scope, call us and quote the job number. We would rather resolve a disagreement in a week than lose a customer to a silence.

A quality report sheet with a signed measurement table on a clipboard next to a finished metal part

signed reporttracking same daypacked for transit

Timing

How long the whole thing takes

Stage	Standard	Rush option
Quote response	1 working day	Same day if called before noon
Fixture design and build	3 – 7 days	2 days with a rush charge
First article	48 hours	24 hours on the second shift
Grinding and lapping batch	3 – 5 days	Same day for a stopped line
Electropolishing and passivation	2 – 4 days	Next-day on a small batch
Blasting	2 – 3 days	Same day on the robotic cell
Powder coating and cure	4 – 6 days	3 days if the oven is free
Hard chrome	6 – 9 days	Not offered — chemistry sets the pace

Rush means a real second shift, and a rush charge, and we say so up front. What we will not do is rush a plating cycle, because a faster build is exactly how you get pitted chrome and a part that fails three months later in a cylinder.

First step

Start at stage one

Stage one costs you nothing and takes a paragraph to write. Tell inflpanjlott.com the material, what the part does, and what it looks like now. Everything else follows from those three answers.

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What we need from you

A drawing if you have one, a photo if you do not, and three facts: the alloy, the current condition and what the part does in service. Tolerance helps, but it is not required for a first answer.

If your part is already at your customer, tell us that too. It changes the whole conversation — a rush job with a stopped line gets a different route than a planned one, and knowing which one you are saves a day.

And if you already have a supplier and something is going wrong, say that. We are not going to pretend a bad finish is a drawing problem. Knowing what failed tells inflpanjlott.com more in one sentence than a photo of the part ever will.