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CNC polishing, diamond turning and glass molding reach different tolerances at different volumes. How to choose an asphere route from slope error, material and quantity.
How to turn a wavefront target into manufacturing limits: surface-versus-wavefront conversion, sensitivity allocation, RSS versus worst case, and compensators.
Why keeping polishing, coating, cementing and metrology in one facility surfaces problems earlier and changes how prototype and production schedules behave.
