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We’re Expanding! New Equipment and Software.

The recent rebranding of Star Prototype to Star Rapid is much more than a name change and a fresh coat of paint. Our rebranding also coincides with an expansion of our 60,000 square foot facility and a significant investment of more than US $2.5 million in cutting-edge manufacturing equipment and management software. Here are some things you […]

Star Rapid And Cybathlon In The News On CNET

Early this year Star began to work with the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), a non-profit research organization that leverages the power of various technologies to improve human and machine interaction and performance. We built many of the metal components for their MinaV2 robotic exoskeleton, and when Dr. Peter Neuhaus of the IHMC exoskeleton […]

New Sodick EDM Machine

One of the newest additions to our family of fine equipment, the Sodick AD30Ls will help us to increase our capacity in sinker Electric Discharge Machining (EDM). This unit is a high-precision, linear drive model guaranteed to hold tolerance on all three axes for 10 years without maintenance. This makes it fast, accurate and reliable. […]

The Seven Major CNC Machining Techniques

Although there are many new and emerging manufacturing technologies, there is still no substitute for the reliability and efficiency of CNC machining. Every day, millions of precision parts in a variety of substrates are made using one or more of these CNC machining techniques. Let’s take a closer look at the seven most common ones […]