Ashley Machine & Tool Company delivers precise CNC machining services using advanced multi-axis milling, turning, and mill-turn equipment. Their CAM-driven toolpaths ensure repeatable accuracy and tight tolerances across metals and engineering plastics, supporting prototypes through full production runs with scalable automation and inspection readiness.

CNC Machining is subtractive manufacturing performed on computer-numerically controlled machine tools. Toolpaths generated from CAM drive multi-axis milling, turning, and mill-turn equipment to remove material accurately and repeatably. The approach enables tight tolerances, stable process capability, and scalable automation for prototypes through production across metals and engineering plastics.

CNC Machining

CNC Milling removes material with rotating cutters under precise multi-axis computer control, producing complex prismatic or sculpted parts with positional accuracy to ±0.005 mm and surface finishes ≤ Ra 0.4 µm. Machines span 3-axis vertical mills, 4-axis horizontals with pallet changers, and full 5-axis trunnion or gantry platforms, supporting everything from rapid prototypes to lights-out production in metals, plastics, and composites.

CNC Milling

CNC Turning uses computer-controlled lathes to rotate bar, billet, or cast blanks while single-point cutting tools remove material. The process excels at producing concentric OD/ID features, tapers, threads, grooves, and complex contours with tight positional accuracy. Modern CNC lathes support live tooling, Y-axis interpolation, sub-spindle part transfer, and bar-feed automation—enabling complete, high-volume production of precision cylindrical components in metals or plastics.

CNC Turning

CNC Mill-Turn Machining combines multi-axis turning and milling in a single setup. Workpieces are clamped once and processed on opposed spindles with live tooling, Y-axis milling, and simultaneous interpolation up to 9 axes. This eliminates part re-clamping, improves concentricity between turned and milled features, and compresses overall cycle time for complex prismatic-plus-cylindrical components used in aerospace, medical, and high-mix/low-volume production.

CNC Mill-Turn Machining

Ashley Machine & Tool Company provides expert tooling and operation planning services, including design and analysis of jigs, nests, and cutting tools using FEA and simulation. Their engineering team optimizes toolpaths and machining strategies from customer blueprints and 3D models to ensure efficient transformation from raw materials to finished products.

Design and analysis of jigs, nests and cutting tools using FEA and simulation to ensure repeatability and interchangeability.

Production Tooling & Fixture Design

Engineering service that creates optimized CNC turret-punch or laser programs, including nesting, tool sequencing, and simulation, to maximize material utilization and minimize cycle time.

CAD/CAM Pattern Programming

Tooling and Operation Planning

Ashley Machine & Tool offers comprehensive polishing and metal finishing services using industry-standard equipment. Their processes include abrasive grinding, belt polishing, electropolishing, and super-finishing to achieve mirror-like surfaces, tight tolerances, and enhanced corrosion resistance for aerospace, medical, and precision components.

Surface treatment & finishing encompasses chemical, mechanical and thermal operations—tumbling, vibratory deburr, abrasive blasting, electropolishing, anodizing, chromate conversion, hard-chrome or nickel plating, powder coating, wet painting and ceramic or PVD/CVD overlays—that modify a part’s surface for appearance, corrosion resistance, wear protection or adhesion. Processes routinely achieve ≤ 8 µin Ra finishes, controlled coating thickness from 0.0001 in to 0.010 in and salt-spray performance exceeding 1 000 h to ASTM B117.

Surface Treatment & Finishing

Polishing / Grinding encompasses abrasive stock-removal and surface-refinement operations applied after rough machining or heat treat. Grinding with bonded-abrasive wheels (Al₂O₃, SiC, CBN, diamond) brings parts to final size, geometry, and flatness, routinely holding ±0.002 mm and roundness < 0.001 mm on hardened steels > 60 HRC. Subsequent polishing stages—belt, buff, super-finishing, micro-finishing, or lapping—reduce surface roughness to Ra 0.05 µm–0.20 µm, produce plateau finishes for bearing surfaces, or achieve mirror cosmetics before coating or plating. Coolant-flooded machines, automatic size-control gauging, and filtered oil or water emulsions ensure thermal stability and contamination-free finishes for aerospace, medical, mould-and-die, and precision fluid-power components.

Polishing / Grinding

Electropolishing is an electrochemical process used to polish, passivate, and deburr metal parts, removing a thin layer of material to achieve a smooth, bright surface. This is vital in medical, food, and aerospace industries where contaminant-free surfaces are critical.

Electropolishing

Super-finishing (Micro-finishing) removes the final microns of surface asperities using low-speed, low-pressure oscillating abrasive stones or tapes, producing a plateau finish with Ra ≤ 0.1 µm (4 µin). The process improves bearing life, reduces friction and enhances fatigue strength on shafts, hydraulic pistons, gears and raceways after grinding or hard turning.

Super-finishing / Micro-finishing

Polishing and Metal Finishing

Ashley Machine & Tool Company provides high-performance sawing and cutting services using finely calibrated bandsaws and cut-off machines. Their precision sawing ensures low vibration, high speed, and accurate cuts for a wide range of materials, supporting project uptime and productivity in metal fabrication.

Sawing is a cutting process that uses a saw blade to cut through metal, typically used for cutting larger metal sections to size.

Sawing

Cutting is the primary material-removal operation in metal fabrication, producing net or near-net shapes from plate, sheet, bar, and structural profiles. It spans thermal, mechanical, and abrasive methods—including laser, plasma, oxy-fuel, water-jet, shearing, sawing, and abrasive-cutoff—each selected for its speed, kerf width, edge quality, and heat-affected zone characteristics. Cutting establishes dimensional references and critical edges for all downstream forming, welding, and finishing steps.

Cutting

Sawing and Cutting

Ashley Machine & Tool Company ensures product quality through advanced inspection and metrology services. Utilizing state-of-the-art CMMs, optical systems, and certified inspection tools, they perform incoming, in-process, and final inspections with traceable documentation and compliance to industry standards including AS9100 and MIL-I-45208A.

Inspection & Quality Control (IQC) comprises the metrology, verification, and documentation activities that ensure parts conform to drawing/CAD requirements, customer specifications, and regulatory standards. IQC spans incoming, in-process, and final inspection and leverages coordinate metrology (CMMs and portable arms), laser/structured-light scanning, optical comparators and vision systems, surface-form metrology (profilometers, roundness/contour testers), nondestructive testing (NDT), and statistical process control (SPC). Results are captured in traceable reports (e.g., AS9102 FAIR, PPAP) tied to calibrated gauges and controlled environmental conditions.

Inspection & Quality Control

Dimensional Inspection verifies that a part’s physical dimensions match design tolerances. Tools include calipers, micrometers, and CMMs, ensuring geometric accuracy of length, width, height, angles, and more.

Dimensional Inspection

Performs final dimensional gauging, threaded-fastener torque audits, and functional fit/actuation tests on sub-assemblies to ensure compliance with drawing tolerances and customer-specified performance criteria before kitting or shipment.

Dimensional, Torque & Functional QC

Provision and maintenance of a documented inspection system compliant with MIL-I-45208A, covering inspection planning, control of measuring equipment, sampling, nonconformance control, records, and periodic audits for defense/aerospace work.

MIL-I-45208A-Compliant Inspection System

Quality Inspection and Metrology

AS9100D is the 2016 revision of the aerospace Quality Management System (QMS) standard. It augments ISO 9001:2015 with aerospace-specific requirements for risk-based thinking, product safety, counterfeit-parts prevention, configuration management, and stringent supplier controls to ensure the safety and reliability of aviation, space, and defense products and services.

AS9100D

The design, manufacturing, and integration of high‐precision components, systems, and subsystems for commercial aircraft and military platforms, with emphasis on meeting stringent certifications such as AS9100, ITAR, and MIL‐STD. Priorities include advanced materials, rigorous quality assurance, and robust engineering to ensure reliability in mission‐critical applications.

Aerospace & Defense

Ashley Machine & Tool Company manufactures high-precision aerospace components through precision machining, fabrication, and assembly for commercial and military aircraft. Their products serve aerospace primes and defense contractors, supporting mission-critical applications in both commercial and military aviation.

Ashley Machine & Tool Company, founded in 1945, specializes in precision aerospace component machining with extensive experience in tooling, machining, and metal finishing. Certified to AS9100 since 2008, Ashley serves aerospace primes such as Northrop Grumman, Kaman Aerospace, and Daher Aerospace. The company operates a 50,000 sq ft facility equipped with advanced CNC machining centers, lathes, sawing machines, and polishing equipment. Capabilities include complex 3D model-based machining, forming, and inspection using state-of-the-art CMMs with CAD interfaces. Ashley excels in delivering high-quality, on-time aerospace parts for commercial and military aircraft programs.

A 50,000 square foot manufacturing facility equipped with advanced CNC machining centers, lathes, sawing machines, polishing and metal finishing equipment, and a 2,500 sq ft climate-controlled inspection area with state-of-the-art CMMs. Located near major interstates for efficient supply chain access.

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Precision aerospace component machining with AS9100 certification and advanced CNC capabilities.

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