Automated CNC machining · Toronto
CNC machined parts, quoted instantly. Made as fast as same day.
Instant Chips is a Toronto start-up automating CNC milling. Upload a CAD file, get a price on the spot, and get prototype and low-volume parts as fast as the same day.
- Quote
- Instant
- As fast as
- Same day
- Tolerance
- ±0.005″
01 / What we do
Machined parts without the shop-floor bottleneck
Instant Chips makes prototype and low-volume CNC milled parts, 1 to 100 units. We’re automating the slow, manual work of running a machine shop, so a job can go from CAD file to finished part as fast as the same day.
02 / How it works
From CAD file to finished part, as fast as same day
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Upload your CAD file
Send us a 3D model of your part.
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Get an instant quote
See your price right away, without waiting days for a shop to reply.
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Receive your parts
Parts are machined, deburred, blasted and inspected, then shipped, as fast as the same day.
03 / Capabilities
What we machine
We focus on a defined range of parts so we can make them fast.
- Lead time
- As fast as same day
- Standard tolerance
- ±0.005″ ±0.13 mm
- Max part size
- 5″ × 5″ × 5″ 127 mm cube
- Quantity
- 1 to 100 parts
Materials
| Aluminum | Stocked |
|---|---|
| Other materials | On request |
Need something else? Get in touch and ask.
04 / Who it’s for
Built for engineers and product teams who need
- One-off prototypes and small runs, from 1 to 100 parts
- Machined parts fast, as soon as the same day
- A price right away, without the back-and-forth
- A machine shop based in Toronto, Ontario
05 / Why now
The traditional machine shop is running out of people
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A fragmented industry
CNC machining is spread across many small, independent shops, most of them running on manual processes and the experience of a few key people.
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A retiring workforce
Many shop owners and skilled machinists are nearing retirement, and there often isn’t anyone lined up to take over.
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A growing knowledge gap
Skills built over decades of hands-on work are hard to write down and slow to teach. When experienced people leave, that knowledge leaves with them.
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Fewer new machinists
Fewer young people are choosing machining as a career, so the gap keeps getting wider.
Automation can close that gap. That’s what we’re building.
Interested in what we’re building?
We’d like to hear from investors, potential co-founders and people who want to join the early team.
06 / Contact
Talk to us
Investors, potential co-founders, people who want to join the team, and future customers: send us a message and we’ll get back to you.
Toronto, Ontario