Turn Raw Material Into Precise Ideas.

A hands-on technical atelier where beginners master artificial intelligence applications in metalworking, CNC machining, robotic fabrication, and precision manufacturing.

Enter the Atelier

Machinist reviewing CAD blueprints under warm workshop lamp.

About the Atelier

Foundry 17 is where traditional manufacturing fluency meets modern digital intelligence. We teach beginners to read metal, speak G-code, and deploy machine learning for adaptive toolpaths and real-time quality control.

Our workshop floor is equipped with industrial CNC mills, collaborative robot arms, and precision measurement cells. You will not watch from a distance. You will calibrate fixtures, interpret vision-system outputs, and ship parts that meet aerospace tolerance.

Skills

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CNC Programming

Program 3-, 4-, and 5-axis toolpaths with adaptive clearing and AI-assisted collision avoidance. Understand speeds, feeds, and fixture coordinate systems from first principles.

Robotic Fabrication

Teach robot arms to weld, deburr, and pick-and-place using vision-guided coordinate frames. Work with FANUC, Universal Robots, and custom end-of-arm tooling.

Machine Vision

Build inspection pipelines that detect surface defects, measure critical dimensions, and guide robots. Calibrate cameras, lighting rigs, and lens distortion models.

Precision Manufacturing

Hold tolerances that matter. Learn geometric dimensioning, CMM operation, surface metrology, and process control using SPC and automated feedback correction.

Machine Floor

Student Process Timeline

CAD Model Parametric design & simulation
CAM Toolpath G-code, simulation, & setup sheet
CNC Machine Adaptive feedrate machining
QC Inspect Dimensional & visual verification

Precision Manufacturing

Titanium Impeller

A bladed disk machined from Ti-6Al-4V on a 5-axis portal mill. Toolpath strategy optimized AI-generated stock-removal maps.

Ti-6Al-4V 5-Axis ±0.001"

Robotic gripper assembly positioned over aluminum cast components.

Robotic Fabrication

Aluminum Cast Gripper

An A356.0 casting finished by a Fanuc M-20iD for use in automated material-handling cells.

A356.0 Fanuc M-20iD Spot Weld Ready

Microscopic view of wire-EDM surface finish on tool steel lattice.

Precision Manufacturing

Wire EDM Lattice

Tool steel honeycomb structures produced on a wire EDM with AI-cornering strategies that minimize recast layer thickness.

A2 Tool Steel 0.008" Wire 16 µRa

Robotic welding torch approaching a mild steel bracket jig.

Robotic Fabrication

Bin-Picking Bracket

Mild steel fixture fabricated with RVision-guided pick-and-place preparation and robotic spot welding.

Mild Steel RVision Spot Weld

Machine Vision

Weld Seam Map

A Keyence LJ-X8000 seam-tracking dataset trained to classify SS304 GMAW geometries in near real time.

SS304 Keyence LJ-X GMAW

CNC Programming

Adaptive Vase

A 7075 aluminum vessel generated with Fusion 360 adaptive clearing. Tool wear was predicted and offset before critical finishing passes.

7075 Aluminum Fusion 360 3-Axis

Enrollment

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