The 17 parts are between 2 mm and 10 mm diameter by up to 400 mm long and are produced in PEEK, an engineering plastic, as well as high quality 316L stainless steel.  Required in batches that range between 100 and 200 parts they are ideal for the Citizen  CNC sliding head turn-mill centres installed at Welwyn Garden City for single cycle production operations with fast changeovers.  Indeed, even the 400 mm length components can be produced in this way of working due to the long workpiece adaptors that are included in the high specification of its machines.

Due to the cost penalties involved in deep sea operations a meticulous attention was paid to quality procedures when Unicut was appraised for the orders against other subcontractors.  The contracts involve complete supply of material, machining and full historical traceability. 

Operations to be performed on the different parts involve turning and threading, cross-hole drilling and milling of special hexagons and keyways with some parts having very thin wall sections of under 1 mm.  In particular, a banana connector 2.38 mm diameter by 400 mm long has a very fine thread of 2-56 UNC-2A at one end, and at the other four keyway slots, one in each of the component quadrants just 0.8 mm wide by 4.5 mm long.  These slots all break into each other at the centre of the part and have to be fully deburred at the intersection within the machining cycle. 

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