CNC Industries, Inc.

Document Management is a very tricky and important skill to have in a Precision Machine Shop.  At CNC Industries, we deal with a wide variety of custom parts.  Some are simple and some are very complex parts.  Either way, each part that we machine has a variety of dimensions which may be very critical to the part.  In addition to the physical dimensions, in dealing with aerospace or military manufactured parts, there may be a large number of quality specifications which need to be followed. 

CNC Industries uses a component of our ERP system to handle our document management needs.  Job Manager tracks all pertinent documents for all of the thousands of custom parts that we manufacture.    The Doc Manager Module is fully searchable, indexed, and has security implemented.  All uses may see only the documents that they need to, and any documentation that is needed is available quickly. 

Gone are the days of the 50 page Job Router.  With our Paperless Doc Manager system, we have been able to save time and money while ensuring that all of our information is kept up to date at all times.  All documents are updated in real time allowing us to quickly react to any engineering or customer changes that occur. 

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CNC Industries is a Fort Wayne, Indiana based Machine Shop specializing in precision CNC machining, fabrication and assembly of application-critical and custom machined parts for the Aerospace, Defense, Medical, Industrial and Transportation  markets.   The company presently employees approximately 55 people.

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We at CNC Industries, as a precision machine shop are very interested in how we are evaluated for performance.  Traditionally machine shops are evaluated on the basis of their ability to make the parts to specification.  While this is still a critical component to a machine shop, we do not feel that it adequately addresses all of the issues. 

Precision Machining is certainly based on the actual manufacturing of the parts, the intangibles are as critical to the overall performance of the machine shop itself.  Questions that should be asked include:

• Is the company adequately addressing any problems or concerns that come up?
• Does the company follow best practice guidelines?
• Does the company maintain it’s manufacturing equipment well? 
• Does the machine shop treat it’s customers with honesty and integrity?
• Does the company perform to it’s promised delivery dates?
  • if a delivery date is going to be missed for any reason, does the shop notify the customer of the delay?
• Does the company follow industry standards such as ISO 9001 and others? 

Of course there could be many more questions that need to be addressed to fully evaluate a company.  But the main issue is that, even in a precision machine shop, it is important to look at the customer service given. 

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CNC Industries is a Fort Wayne, Indiana based machine shop specializing in precision CNC machining, fabrication and assembly of application-critical and custom machined parts for the Aerospace, Defense, Medical, Industrial and Transportation  markets.   The company presently employees approximately 55 people.

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There is a lot of buzz about continuous improvement in the business world today.  As a precision machine shop that focuses on contract manufacturing, CNC Industries has a different perspective than am office or a production machining facility.  While we do have several production jobs, the bulk of our work comes in short term contracts.

With short term contracts we do not have the luxury of being able to improve upon our performance throughout a physical run of a job.   Our customers demand a high level of precision, so we also cannot ‘dial the tolerance in’ over time.   Instead we need to focus on getting a repeatable general process developed which allows us to quickly and efficiently switch between our various contracted jobs. 

Our continuous improvement initiative needs to account for the fact that our machines may be running different custom parts tomorrow than they are making today.  With all of this in mind, we allow each person in our company to suggest improvements both to how we run an individual machined part, as well as suggestions for the overall process of machining, how we get ready to machine parts, ability to keep precision, and any other facet of how our company works.  Our Process Change Request system ensures that each employee has the ability to express their thoughts for improvement in a way that will be reviewed in a timely manner. 

Through the use of technology – specifically our ERP system Job Manager, we are able to monitor how effective we are from day to day.  We are able to track overall shop performance as well as any individual  job performance.  We make sure that all of our machinery is kept up-to-date with maintenance and we regularly purchase new equipment as needed.  As we see areas that are lagging in performance we are able to quickly remedy any deficiencies. 

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CNC Industries is a Fort Wayne, Indiana based Job-Shop specializing in precision CNC machining, fabrication and assembly of application-critical and custom machined parts for the Aerospace, Defense, Medical, Industrial and Transportation  markets.   The company presently employees approximately 55 people.

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We are full bore getting ready for our AS9100 audit coming up in a few months.  We have been operating well above the ISO9001-2000 standard.  We feel that this will both improve our company as well as improve our ability to attract aerospace customers.  As a precision machine shop, we are very focused on continual improvement — it is an essential focus as the industry becomes more competitive. 

In a nutshell AS9100 certification ensures that we follow a high level of standardization in documentation and in productions.  Since we make a large number of custom machined parts it becomes imperative that our documentation is under control.  We focus a lot of our energy on our internal ERP system and other technology.   Job Manager allows us to operate easily up to the AS9100 standards while still performing our work quickly and efficiently. 

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CNC Industries is a Fort Wayne, Indiana based Job-Shop specializing in precision CNC machining, fabrication and assembly of application-critical and custom machined parts for the Aerospace, Defense, Medical, Industrial and Transportation  markets.   The company presently employees approximately 55 people.

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CNC Industries has been selected as a favorite place by Google!

We recieved a notice that over 1000 people saw our business listing on Google in just 3 months last year and 120 looked up driving directions. Perhaps many of these were simply salesmen looking for us, but we also found many new customers last year, so I imagine a good deal of these were also our new customers tracking us down. Our strategy and method of advertising our company and focusing on getting friendly with Google seems to be paying off.

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CNC Industries is a Fort Wayne, Indiana based Job-Shop specializing in precision CNC machining, fabrication and assembly of application-critical and custom machined parts for the Aerospace, Defense, Medical, Industrial and Transportation  markets.   The company presently employees approximately 55 people.

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