Aug 12
StevenDeamAS9100, Aerospace Machining, Certification, Document Management, News
By Steven R Deam – CNC Industries, Inc. Fort Wayne, Indiana
CNC Industries Completes AS9100 Rev C Certification
Fort Wayne, IN 8/12/2010
For Immediate Release
Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010
Contact: Steven R Deam
CNC Industries
Fort Wayne, IN
260.490.5700
Email: stevendeam@cncind.com
Fort Wayne, IN—CNC Industries is pleased to announce that they have successfully completed their AS9100 registration effective on July 31, 2010. CNC Industries had previously been certified to the ISO9001:2008 standard – the AS9100 certification is recognized as including all aspects of the ISO 9001 certification as well. SGS served as the registrar and auditor for CNC Industries.
CNC Industries, established in 1995, specializes in precision machining, milling, turning, and assembly of custom parts for the aerospace and defense industries. The company uses the latest machinery as well as custom written ERP software to facilitate high levels of quality demanded by their customers. CNC Industries has a 35,000 square foot facility on the north side of Fort Wayne, IN.
AS9100 certification is an international standard for quality and management systems for the Aircraft, Space and Defense Industries. CNC Industries’ Vice President of operations, Dustin Kimbrell, has said “The implementation of AS9100 standards throughout the company has helped to make us a successful supplier to many aircraft and defense contractors. We are better able to serve our customers needs and expectations through our internal processes and systems at this point than we have ever been. We have become the premier supplier for many of our customers, and the AS9100 certification is another indication of our commitment to always uphold a superior level of quality throughout our production processes.”
By becoming AS9100 certified CNC Industries joins a small group of companies that demonstrate their superior quality management systems. In Fort Wayne, only 7 companies are AS9100 certified – of which only 3 of these companies are local businesses. CNC Industries is the only precision machine shop in Fort Wayne to become AS9100 certified. In all of Indiana only slightly over 100 companies have managed to become certified to the full AS9100 level.
CNC Industries attributes much of its success in obtaining the AS9100 certification to its’ internal ERP system called Job Manager. Steven Deam Jr, the IT Administrator at CNC comments, “The ability to adapt our software systems to the higher standards of AS9100 regulations has allowed us to adjust our processes to the increased demands placed upon us by increasingly complex parts and orders. Our customers expect high levels of quality and service. With Job Manager we are able to meet their stringent quality and service requirements while additionally offering them better overall pricing”.
For more information regarding CNC Industries Inc., please refer to the company web site: http://www.cncind.com or call 260.490.5700.
For additional information about SGS visit http://www.us.sgs.com.
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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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Jun 18
StevenDeamAerospace Machining, Certification, Document Management, Lean Manufacturing, Precision Machining Aerospace Machining, Custom Machined Parts, ERP, Job Manager, Lean Manufacturing, wastes
The fifth of the seven wastes is the most readily obvious waste – defects. A part or product that is not made correctly and needs to be either re-worked or discarded, is obviously a waste. The time spent on the original part is wasted, the material and other costs are wasted, the time that it takes to re-work or re-make the part is wasted. Overall defects cause considerable disruptions and waste.
Once again high volume work has an easier time of removing defects from the process. the length of the run of a part will justify creating more complex and expensive fixturing to enable quality at the course – so that the part has little or no chance of being produced improperly. Custom inspection procedures will allow quick discovery of any non-conforming parts as well.
In a low volume high mix facility – as a large portion of CNC Industries is, making custom machined parts and precision aerospace machined parts, we cannot spend an extensive amount of time on fixturing – our lead time for the entire first batch of product is sometimes shorter than production companies will spend on a single fixture for a production part. The inspection requirements and quality standards will also vary – sometimes greatly – between parts running through our shop at the same time. We have to ensure that each fixture is made quickly and still performs as it needs to.
Of course defects are caused by a myriad of issues beyond just the fixturing the part correctly. We have many more methods of preventing mistakes and defects before they occur, but I think a more telling evaluation of a companies dedication to eliminating defects is the processes taken when a defect does occur. At CNC Industries, we place great emphasis on root cause analysis and corrective / preventative actions. As we are nearing our AS9100 certification, we are more aware of this need than ever before.
Our Corrective Action System is based on the Apollo Root Cause Analysis and allows and indefinite depth of root cause analysis. We regard and defect as a serious issue and are quick to come to an understanding of the root cause that allowed the defect to occur. With our ERP system, we are able to quickly resolve any ongoing systemic issue and immediately take the necessary corrective action to prevent future occurrences of the issue. Preventative and corrective actions and their resolutions are transmitted throughout the company immediately upon completion and necessary procedural and process changes are automatically updated. All relevant documentation is kept entirely in sync with our digital paperless document system.
The ability to adjust our entire process to address a deficiency in the processes that we utilize allows us to have an extremely low defect rate – and when the very occasional defect does occur we can quickly adapt and prevent the problem in the future.
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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 employs approximately 55 people.
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Jun 14
StevenDeamAerospace Machining, Document Management, Lean Manufacturing, Precision Machining, Technology Aerospace Machining, Custom Machined Parts, Document Management, Lean Manufacturing, motion, the seven wastes
The 4th waste identified in lean manufacturing is Motion. Motion concerns the ergonomics of the workers in a process and any unnecessary steps or movement that they have in the process.
To again look at the difference of a high mix / low volume precision aerospace machining facility and a high volume production we will see a difference in the ability to reduce motion. In a high volume production environment you can count on a particular workstation being focused on a single task – even if that task is performed over a variety of individual parts, the motions and the ergonomics will be similar. In a low volume precision machine shop, the task on one day may be entirely different than the task of the prior day. While they will be related still – depending on the functionality of the machine at the workstation – the individual parts may require a significant difference in motion or handling.
To compensate for this changing process, CNC industries has designed it’s facility to accommodate a high mix of precision parts easily. While the information and documentation may vary from one part to another, we have standardized the method of getting that information into electronic information stations which are uniformly located near the workstations. Each worker in our facility may count on being able to get all necessary work instructions in the same way.
We have also standardized our machine setups with the tooling being handle off of the machine to eliminate unnecessary motion in the setup process. The advantages of removing extra motion include more productivity, less stress on the people involved in the process, as well as lowered chances of errors and mistakes being made. So even with a facility dedicated to fully custom machined parts and prototypes, we can easily remove unnecessary wastes.
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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 employs approximately 55 people.
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Apr 14
StevenDeamAerospace Machining, Document Management, Precision Machining communication, Information Management, Ordering, Precision Machining, RFQ, The First Job
In continuing the last post on finding a new precision machine shop for custom machined parts, I am going to go over a bit of what to expect with the first order or two.
Communication is still the key to the process. At CNC Industries, we have often been told that our communication is a large part of the reason that we are among their favored suppliers. Precision Machining is a relatively tricky process still today. The information overload that comes with each part drawing can often lead to overlooked features or specifications. Aerospace components often contain numerous mil-specs, large amounts of technical call-outs, and even purchase order specifications. Even parts that are less complex than aerospace components may have critical details that are easy to overlook. Part Revisioning can cause increased complexity and another chance to overlook some crucial piece of information. If you have not checked yet, it is important to check into your supplier’s information management system.
It is important for the machine shop that you are starting out with to ask any clarifying questions necessary to get the complete picture of the machined part that they are producing. Ideally all questions from the machine shop should have come out during the RFQ process. However, it is not uncommon for the engineering team to take a deeper look at the part as they prepare the production router and fixture. In the RFQ process of a new customer that we acquired we were able to ascertain that they had mislabeled a set of drawings that they had sent out for us to quote. Through our examination of the part we noticed that some of the details seemed to be wrong for the stated use of the part. We consider our discovery of this error on their drawing to be a large part of the reason that we received the initial purchase order.
Another important aspect of the first job is to carefully select what part or parts you will be sending to the new supplier. It has worked best at CNC Industries to have a new customer order a variety of potential parts in the initial order. It is good to have a scope of potential work complexities. If you are to start doing work with a new precision machine shop and only send small simple work to them, you may find that they are not capable of handling the complex machined parts that you want to order down the road. Likewise if you are sending only complex parts and you want to have a single source to deal with for machined parts, you may find that the machine shop is not price competitive on simpler parts. One way to deal with both of these issues is to give at least a relative expectation of cost to your new supplier, ie: ‘for our simple parts we typically pay half of what we pay for the complex parts’. As you can see from our parts profile page, CNC Industries works with a large variety of complexities and quantities on a daily basis.
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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 employs approximately 55 people.
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Mar 09
StevenDeamDocument Management, Precision Machining, Technology Document Management, ERP, management, Technology
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 employs approximately 55 people.
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