Metal splints are processed in this way. Wire cut, burned red, hydraulic press with mold stamping, milling machine milling curved surface, CNC milling machine drilling and milling holes, polishing, cleaning, packaging. That's all I can remember. Actually polished twice. That hole, too, required a separate process of polishing the hole. Red-hot and then stamped, probably what is commonly known as red-stamping. This is a 10 year old process, for general metal splints, yes, and for special ones, the pliers use a file to harden it. Metal splints, from start to finish, have not used ordinary lathes, instrumentation lathes, CNC lathes once. Now the processing technology, I am not sure.... Theoretically, it is possible to cut the material with a laser (it used to be wire-cut), and directly with a machining center, milling out the curved surfaces and holes, is also possible.
Most laymen simply will not believe that the metal plate processing process is so simple, even if engaged in the production of orthopedic internal fixation products for many years, the boss of the enterprise, has never produced a metal plate, he does not believe that the process of metal plate will be so simple, but this is not surprising, after all, the boss is to study medicine, not to study the machining of the origins of the well.