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Choosing Between Laser Cutting, Chemical Etching and Stamping

Find the right manufacturing method for your thin, high-precision stainless steel parts. Compare costs, tolerances, and volumes for laser cutting, etching, and stamping.

Crimping: How to Achieve Strong, Reliable Joints

Crimping techniques, key factors for joint strength, common mistakes, and best practices to speed up manufacturing processes.

Avoiding Spring Back – How to Ensure Accurate Bends in Stainless Steel

Understand spring back in Stainless Steel bending – why it occurs, how to calculate it, and proven methods like overbending, coining, and tooling adjustments to ensure precise, consistent bends and folds.

How Material Thickness Affects Bending, Folding, and Crimping Metals

Learn how metal thickness affects bending, folding, and crimping.

From Prototype to Production

Best practices for taking stainless steel parts from prototype to full production.

How Precision Laser Cutting Helped Reduce Battery Tab Scrap by 30%

How coil fed laser cutting reduced battery tab scrap by 30%, making ultra-thin battery tab production faster, cleaner, and more efficient

Coil-Fed vs.Sheet-Fed: Choosing the Best Approach

Coil-fed laser cutting is ideal for high-volume manufacturing, it allows us to cut directly from continuous coil stock with high accuracy and efficiency.

Designing Better Cell Connectors: Key to Optimizing Battery Pack Performance

Cell connectors also play a key role in how well a battery performs, especially under real-world conditions.

How to Prepare Your Drawings for Laser Cutting

A guide to help ensure your CAD files translate into flawless, precision-cut parts.

Are Nickel Strips the Right Material for Your Battery Pack?

Nickel is a popular choice for battery packs, especially in lithium-ion systems, because it offers a practical combination of electrical performance, weldability, and corrosion resistance.

Choosing Battery Pack Materials: What to Use and Why It’s Important

When designing battery packs or busbars, selecting the right material for connectors and tabs isn’t just about cost.

What It Takes to Manufacture a 0.05mm Shim

Take a look behind the scenes at what it takes to produce ultra-thin shims with precision.

Extend The Life of Your Stencil Frame

If you’re seeing early wear or variable performance on your stencils, frame maintenance is a good place to start troubleshooting.

How to Specify a Stepped Stencil: What You Need to Know

Providing the right information up front minimizes delays, reduces revision cycles, and helps deliver consistent print quality.

Laser-Cut Circular Shims for Exact Machine Mounting and Alignment

In a recent project, we created custom circular shims for precision machine aligment.

Cost vs Quality: When Cheaper Stencil Blanks Become Expensive

Saving pennies, losing yield? Rethink your stencil blank.

Battery Connectors for Solar Power Storage Units

Battery Connectors For Solar Storage: Precision Engineering For Reliable Power

Datum’s bespoke battery connectors are engineered to meet the exacting standards of solar storage units.

Datum Joins the Battery-Tech Network

We’re pleased to share that Datum is now listed on the Battery-Tech Network.

How Border Holes Impact Stencil Stability During Print

Datum produce custom border holes for your tensioning system to reduce stencil shift, support proper alignment, & improve print quality.

Minimizing Waste in Manufacturing

At Datum, we take a straightforward, hands-on approach to recycling.

Battery Tabs for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Custom battery pack connectors for lithium-ion battery packs.

The Role of Shims in Machine Alignment

Tolerances are tight when it comes to machine fitting, and even the slightest unevenness in the floor can lead to premature wear.

Frameless vs. Framed PCB Stencil Blanks

Discover the best fit for your assembly process – rapid prototypes or high-volume production.

Battery-Operated Livestock Monitors

Powering the future of precision livestock management with reliable battery connectors.

Why Micron-Level Precision is Critical in Battery Manufacturing

Discover how micron-level tolerance in battery connectors can improve safety, reliability, and performance in EVs, aerospace, and medical devices.

Stepped Stencil vs. Two-Pass Printing

How stepped stencil design eliminates extra passes and boosts production efficiency in SMT.

High-Precision Solder Paste Stencils foils

Reduce Rework with High-Precision Solder Paste Stencils

Yield is a critical metric in any PCB manufacturing process. High-precision solder paste foils and stencils directly impact this metric.

Battery-Powered Robots Transform Vineyard Management

Across the globe, winegrowers are embracing a new generation of autonomous, battery-powered robots that are reshaping how vineyards are maintained, monitored, and harvested.