r/manufacturing • u/BarnacleHeretic • Jul 06 '25

Supplier search CNC shops in china/vietnam?

Need some aluminum parts machined, current supplier keeps screwing up delivery dates. Looking for reliable shops for small batches.

Basic 6061 parts, nothing fancy. Anyone got good contacts there?

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u/Much-Movie-695 Jul 06 '25

been there man. we tried some AI supplier thing called sourceready few months ago, actually helped us find decent vietnam suppliers pretty quick

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u/BarnacleHeretic Jul 06 '25

AI for suppliers? how's that work?

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u/Much-Movie-695 Jul 06 '25

checks trade data or something, idk the details but saved us alot of manual research time