CPI turns cylindrical parts up to 13 in Ø × 24 in long while holding ±0.0001 in. Live-tool, sub-spindle lathes complete cross-holes, keyways and back-side ops in one setup, shrinking stack-ups and lead time from prototype to 100 k-piece runs. AS9100D inspection and in-process probing safeguard aerospace-grade accuracy and finish.

5-Axis CNC-Machined Multi-Lobe Hydraulic Piston

CNC-Machined Aluminum Hydraulic Manifolds & Valve Bodies

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

Prototype-to-100 k-piece programs proven; scalable with additional shifts.

Economical mid-volume production with bar-feed automation.

Designed for prototyping and small-batch iteration.

Low-volume lots for market introduction and spares.

Straight Turning is a precise operation in CNC turning where material is removed from the exterior of a cylindrical workpiece to achieve a straight surface. It's essential for creating uniform diameters along the length of the component.

Straight Turning

Live Tooling adds powered rotating tools to CNC turning centers, allowing operations like milling, drilling, or tapping on a lathe without transferring the part to a separate machine. This improves efficiency and reduces setups for complex components.

Live Tooling

Large-Diameter CNC Turning focuses on parts whose swing exceeds standard lathe capacity—typically 330 mm (13 in) or more. Specialized heavy-duty spindles and wide-gap beds allow accurate rough- and finish-turning of large flanges, rings, and housings while maintaining concentricity and surface finish comparable to standard CNC turning.

Large-Diameter CNC Turning

Bar-Fed CNC Turning automates production by feeding continuous bar stock (typically ≤ 50 mm / 2 in Ø) through the spindle. Coupled with sub-spindle or parts-catcher, it enables unattended, high-volume manufacture of precision turned components with minimal material waste and cycle time.

Bar-Fed CNC Turning

Profile Turning is a CNC operation where complex external geometries are produced on a workpiece. It involves changing the cutting path to create various shapes like contours, arcs, and steps, crucial for customized component manufacturing.

Profile Turning

Threading is a CNC turning operation used to produce internal or external threads on a workpiece. It involves rotating the workpiece and cutting tool in synchronization to create precise screw threads, essential for components requiring threaded connections.

Threading

Hard Turning in CNC Turning refers to the process of cutting materials that are hard, typically above 45 HRC, using a single point cutting tool. It is an efficient and cost-effective alternative to grinding for achieving precision dimensions and surface finishes on hard materials.

Hard 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

Prototype-to-Production Lot Management is a service that bridges the gap between one-off prototypes and repeat production. It establishes controlled lot tracking, revision-controlled travelers, and documentation that scales from pilot runs through full-rate manufacturing. The service covers material certification capture, ERP/MES integration, SPC monitoring, and coordinated ramp-up scheduling to ensure seamless hand-off of qualified parts into production while maintaining full traceability.

Prototype-to-Production Lot Management

Precision CNC Turning

CPI machines prismatic and 3-D parts in one-to-five axes, leveraging 25 × 26 × 26 in travels, pallet changers, and full 5-axis trunnions. Renishaw probing, thermal compensation, and AS9100D workflows deliver ±0.0001 in accuracy from prototype through 10 k-piece lots on aluminum, titanium, steels, and nickel alloys.

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

Supports high volume production demands, ensuring scalability and competitive cost for large-scale orders.

Meets the needs of medium volume production, offering cost efficiency for expanding product lines.

Designed for prototyping and small batch runs, allowing for rapid iteration and testing.

Optimized for low volume production, ideal for market introduction and specialized products.

3-Axis Vertical Machining uses a vertical-spindle CNC mill with linear X-, Y-, and Z-motions to produce prismatic parts, slots, pockets, drilled holes, and 2.5-D contours. Tool changers, rigid tapping, and on-board probing enable accurate, repeatable machining of small- to mid-sized components with positional accuracy to ±0.010 mm and surface finishes to Ra ≤ 0.8 µm.

3-Axis Vertical Machining

Employs pallet changers and queued job scheduling for lights-out milling of high-volume cast-part trimming operations.

Automated Pallet Machining

Simultaneous 5-Axis Machining enables continuous, synchronized movement of all five machine axes, drastically reducing setups and facilitating the creation of highly intricate geometries with superior surface finishes.

Simultaneous 5-Axis Machining

High-Speed 3-D Profiling employs lightweight cutters, small step-overs, and spindle speeds above 15 000 rpm to machine free-form surfaces with minimal hand finishing. Advanced look-ahead controls and trochoidal toolpaths maintain constant chip load, enabling precision sculpting of mould cavities, turbine blades, and biomedical implants with surface finishes as fine as Ra 0.2 µm.

High-Speed 3-D Profiling & Surfacing

Deep-Hole (Gun) Drilling produces very long, straight holes—typically with length-to-diameter ratios ≥ 20:1—using self-guided single-flute gun drills or BTA systems. High-pressure through-tool coolant evacuates chips while the tool and/or workpiece counter-rotate, maintaining positional accuracy and surface finish superior to conventional drilling. The process is essential for hydraulic manifolds, aerospace shafts, fuel rails, medical implants and any component requiring precise, deep bores.

Deep-Hole / Gun Drilling

Casting / Forging Finish Machining removes residual stock from near-net cast or forged blanks, using probing to register real-world geometry before adaptive rough- and finish-cuts. This operation ensures tight dimensional tolerances, smooth sealing surfaces, and precise hole patterns while maximising material yield and minimising cycle time.

Casting / Forging Finish Machining

Designs and builds custom fixtures plus 17-4 PH stainless gauges to secure castings and verify dimensions during trimming operations.

Fixture & Gauge Manufacture

Multi-Axis CNC Milling

Mazak Integrex mill-turns combine twin spindles, Y-axis live tooling and bar feed to finish complex parts in one cycle. Up to 10 in Ø × 29.7 in workpieces—or 2 in bar—are rough-turned, milled, drilled and back-worked with ±0.0002 in positional accuracy. In-cycle probing and AS9100D QA sustain prototype-to-100 k production with minimal handling.

Expanded shifts and fixture duplication proven on 100 k-piece programs.

Bar-feed automation maintains Cp/Cpk across lots.

Rapid one-off validation without multiple setups.

Cost-effective small batches with full traceability.

Main-Spindle Turning & Milling refers to the core lathe-plus-live-tool operations performed on the primary spindle of a mill-turn center. In a single chucking the workpiece is OD/ID turned, face-milled, cross-drilled or tapped before any hand-off, ensuring concentricity and positional accuracy on first-side features.

Main-Spindle Turning & Milling

Sub-Spindle Pick-Off & Back-Working transfers the part from the main spindle to a secondary spindle, allowing full machining of the reverse side without re-chucking. The operation completes back-facing, OD/ID turning, threading, and milling, locking datum relationships within a single mill-turn cycle.

Sub-Spindle Pick-Off & Back-Working

Single-Setup Part Completion—often called “One-and-Done”—uses a 7-axis mill-turn to finish all machined features in one uninterrupted cycle, combining main-spindle work, sub-spindle back-working, live-tool milling, and probing. This eliminates secondary fixtures, shortens lead time, and locks all GD&T relationships to a single datum structure.

Single-Setup Part Completion (One-and-Done Mill-Turn)

Uses Renishaw touch probes to verify datums in-cycle and streams dimensional data for CpK/SPC analysis during machining.

In-Process Probing & SPC Capture

Superimposed Machining is an advanced CNC turning technique enabling simultaneous cutting with multiple tool posts or spindles. This parallel operation dramatically reduces cycle times and increases production efficiency for complex parts.

Superimposed Machining

7-Axis CNC Mill-Turn

Charmilles sinker and wire EDM systems cut complex cavities, sharp internal corners, and fine slots in hardened alloys with ±0.0001 in accuracy. Multi-electrode rough/finish strategies, C-axis orbital burning, and fine-skim passes yield mirror finishes and <0.005 in corner radii, delivering burr-free parts or tooling in a single, unattended setup.

Electrical Discharge Machining removes material from electrically conductive workpieces by rapidly recurring spark-erosion between an electrode and the workpiece immersed in a dielectric. Because the process is non-contact and generates virtually no cutting force, EDM can machine hardened tool steels, super-alloys, and complex internal cavities that are impractical for conventional machining, with dimensional accuracy to ±0.005 mm and surface finishes down to Ra 0.2 µm.

Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM)

High-volume feasible for small blanks via multi-up fixturing.

Stack cutting & tool-changer automation maintain cost efficiency.

Low-volume parts requiring burr-free edges.

Wire EDM Straight & Taper Cutting profiles conductive workpieces with a continuously fed brass or coated wire, achieving kerf widths only marginally larger than the wire diameter. Servo-controlled upper and lower nozzles permit taper angles up to ±30 ° while maintaining dimensional accuracy to ±0.002 mm across the cut thickness.

Wire EDM Straight & Taper Cutting

Wire EDM Stack / Multi-Up Cutting clamps multiple plates or identical workpieces into a single stack, enabling simultaneous EDM profiling of all layers. The method maximises throughput for thin components while preserving ±0.005 mm inter-part repeatability and burr-free edges on each piece.

Wire EDM Stack / Multi-Up Cutting

Creates deep core details, ejector slots, and sharp interior corners in die steel by spark-erosion where conventional milling cannot reach.

Sinker EDM

C-Axis Orbital EDM Burning rotates the sinker-EDM electrode under CNC control while performing orbital or helical toolpaths, producing internal splines, hex sockets, and complex cavities with uniform spark gap. Indexed C-axis moves allow multi-orientation burns without manual repositioning.

C-Axis Orbital EDM Burning & Indexing

Multi-Electrode EDM deploys a carousel or linear tool changer to automatically swap roughing and finishing electrodes during unattended sinker-EDM cycles. Coarse electrodes remove bulk material quickly, followed by graphite or copper-impregnated finishing electrodes that achieve fine detail and surface finishes to Ra 0.3 µm.

Multi-Electrode EDM Rough & Finish Strategies

Wire EDM Fine Skim & Mirror Finish performs two to five progressively finer skim passes after the rough cut, using low-energy sparks and deionised water of ≥ 18 MΩ-cm. The sequence yields surface finishes down to Ra 0.2 µm and corner radii under 0.015 mm, eliminating manual polishing on critical tooling details.

Wire EDM Fine Skim & Mirror Finish

EDM Drilling (also called Fast-Hole or Micro-Hole EDM) uses a rotating tubular electrode with pressurised dielectric to rapidly erode small, high-aspect-ratio holes in any conductive material. Diameters down to 0.2 mm and depths exceeding 100× Ø can be produced without burrs, making the process ideal for turbine blade cooling holes, fuel-injector orifices, starter holes for Wire EDM, and micro-fluidic components—even after heat treatment.

EDM Drilling (Fast-/Micro-Hole)

EDM Precision Cutting

CPI’s finishing cell surface-grinds, match-grinds, and hones critical features to micron-level accuracy. A Studer OD/ID grinder (6 in Ø × 20 in) and DoAll 8 × 18 in wet surface grinder achieve ±0.0001 in and 8 µin Ra, while Sunnen honing stones hold sub-0.0001 in bores with cross-hatch patterns ideal for hydraulics. In-house deburr, lapping, and super-finish deliver assembly-ready parts fast.

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

Scalable via dedicated grind fixtures and SPC.

Batch ground slip-fit pins and matched sets.

Tooling trials and first-article validation.

Valve sleeves, shafts, and flat stock finishing.

OD / ID Cylindrical Grinding uses precision cylindrical grinders to finish external (OD) and internal (ID) diameters to sub-micron accuracy. The workpiece is held between centers or in chucks while abrasive wheels traverse or plunge-feed to achieve tight roundness, concentricity and mirror finishes. Match-grind capability produces mated shaft/bore sets with controlled clearance or interference fits, supporting aerospace, medical and gauge manufacturing.

OD / ID Cylindrical Grinding

Surface Grinding employs a rotating abrasive wheel to remove material from a workpiece surface, achieving excellent precision and finish. It is commonly performed on flat or contoured surfaces for final finishing and dimensional accuracy.

Surface Grinding

Honing refines geometry, surface texture, and dimensional accuracy using abrasive stones, typically in cylindrical forms (e.g., engine cylinders, hydraulic bores). This precise finishing process is vital in industries requiring tight tolerances.

Honing

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

Lapping is a precision technique producing extremely flat surfaces or tight tolerances by rubbing two surfaces with an abrasive in between. Common for optical-quality surfaces and precise mechanical parts.

Lapping

Deburring is a critical post-processing operation that removes sharp edges and burrs from metal parts resulting from machining operations. It is essential for ensuring part functionality, safety during handling, and preparing surfaces for further finishing processes. Deburring can be performed using manual techniques, mechanical methods, or through thermal energy, and is applicable across a wide range of industries where smoothness of the part surface is required.

Deburring

Grinding & Honing

CPI’s engineering team imports native CAD, creates 3-D models and toolpaths, and simulates multi-axis machining to deliver shop-ready programs and rapid quotes. AS9100D process planning, revision control and DFM reviews cut launch time and prevent costly redesigns for aerospace and medical projects.

Engineering & Product Support delivers end-to-end technical services that bridge customer design intent with repeatable production. The group imports and heals multi-CAD data, performs design-for-manufacturability (DFM) reviews, builds parametric 3-D models and detailed drawings, generates collision-free CAM toolpaths, designs fixtures and gauges, and maintains revision-controlled routings, travellers, and inspection plans. Rapid digital quoting and closed-loop feedback from SPC shorten iteration cycles and ensure cost, quality, and compliance targets are met from prototype through full-rate production.

Engineering & Product Support

Imports and validates customer CAD data from STEP, IGES, Parasolid, ACIS, and native formats (SolidWorks, CATIA, NX, Creo). Geometry is checked for corrupt faces, missing features, and unit mismatches before downstream CAM or documentation.

CAD Model Import & Translation

Conducts structured DFM reviews that flag tolerance stack-ups, undercuts, minimum wall sections, and difficult fixturing features. Provides annotated PDFs/3D models with recommended design changes to reduce cost and lead-time while safeguarding function.

Design-for-Manufacturability Reviews

Generates production-ready 3-D models and detailed 2-D drawings from sketches, reverse-engineered scans, or legacy blueprints. Incorporates full GD&T, material notes, and revision blocks to industry or customer standards.

3-D Solid Modeling & Drawing Creation

Generates SolidWorks CAM toolpaths and volumetric-error compensation files to achieve < 0.013 mm die accuracy on CNC machines.

CAM Programming & Error Compensation

Performs full G-code simulation—including machine kinematics, tooling, and fixturing—to eliminate collisions, over-travel, and gouging before a program reaches the shop floor. Generates verification reports with error snapshots and optimized cycle-time analytics.

Toolpath Simulation & Collision Detection

Provides automated cost and lead-time estimates by analysing 3-D CAD geometry, material, and quantity. Utilises rule-based and AI-driven machining time predictions, fixture count, and secondary-process routing to return quotes within hours.

Rapid Quoting from Digital Models

Implements formal ECO procedures, versioned CAD/CAM files, and linked routings within ERP/MES. Generates traveller packets with operation sequences, set-ups, inspection points, and digital work instructions tied to each revision for full traceability.

Revision Control & Process Planning

AS9100D-driven quality lab verifies every flight-critical dimension with Zeiss CMM, optical comparators, profilometer, and hardness testing. Automated 3-axis probing, real-time SPC, and traceable calibration deliver statistically controlled lots and complete AS9102 FAIR or PPAP packages on request.

Inspection and Quality Control encompass a range of processes and techniques used to verify that manufactured parts and products meet required specifications, quality standards, and regulatory requirements. This includes visual inspections, dimensional checks, non-destructive testing, and automated inspection systems.

Inspection and Quality Control

3D Coordinate Measurement uses coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) or other 3D metrology tools to capture precise data points on a part’s surface, essential for verifying complex geometries and alignment.

3D Coordinate Measurement

Contour Measurement assesses the profile or cross-sectional geometry of a part to verify that its curved or irregular features meet exact design specifications.

Contour Measurement

Surface Roughness Measurement quantifies micro-deviations from an ideally smooth surface using parameters like Ra. It’s key for functional and aesthetic requirements in automotive, aerospace, and medical applications.

Surface Roughness Measurement

Metal Hardness Testing determines a material’s resistance to deformation, typically using methods such as Rockwell, Brinell, or Vickers. It is vital for quality control and verifying mechanical properties.

Metal Hardness Testing

Produces automotive PPAP and aerospace FAI document packages—including control plans, ballooned prints, and dimensional results—specific to machined components.

PPAP/FAI Documentation (Machined Parts)

Captures shot-by-shot process data and applies statistical process control to maintain CpK and PPAP quality targets in production.

Real-Time SPC

Establishes and maintains a metrology program that calibrates dimensional gauges, torque wrenches, force and pressure transducers, and electronic inspection devices traceable to NIST or equivalent standards. Includes periodic gauge repeatability & reproducibility (Gage R&R) studies to verify measurement system capability and ensure Cp/Cpk compliance for AS9100, ISO 9001, and IATF 16949 quality systems.

Gauge Calibration & Gage R&R Management

Compiles furnace charts, quench data, FAI results and AMS B917 property records into a complete certificate-of-conformance package.

Lot Traceability & Certification Pack

Certified Inspection

CPI delivers turnkey parts—heat-treated, coated, inspected, and kit-packaged—through a vetted Nadcap supply chain and in-house polish/assembly cell. From vacuum age-hardening to Type III hard-anodize and light mechanical assembly, every post-process is documented to aerospace specs and shipped with full certs.

Post-Processing refers to a range of operations that give manufactured parts their final functional and aesthetic qualities. After the primary shaping and machining, these processes, which can include surface finishing, heat treatments, painting, and plating, provide the necessary characteristics for performance, durability, and visual appeal. They ensure parts meet the stringent requirements of industries such as aerospace, automotive, medical, and consumer electronics, where the final product's finish is just as critical as its dimensions and material properties.

Post-Processing

Parallel vendors & FIFO scheduling support high-volume programs.

Multiple plating racks and kitting stations for mid volumes.

One-off prototypes finished to flight configuration.

Small batches coordinated through single heat-treat lot.

Controlled heating and cooling cycles (anneal, quench-temper, solution-age, etc.) applied to metals or alloys to tailor micro-structure, strength and hardness while maintaining dimensional integrity.

Heat Treating

Anodizing is an electrochemical process that enhances the natural oxide layer on metal parts, primarily aluminum. It improves corrosion resistance, wear resistance, and surface hardness, and can also be used for color finishing. Anodizing is essential in industries like aerospace, automotive, and consumer electronics. The process includes Type II for decorative finishes and Type III for hard anodizing, providing a thicker, wear-resistant layer.

Anodizing

Plating involves coating a metal part with a thin layer of another metal—such as gold, silver, nickel, or zinc—through electrochemical processes. This enhances appearance, corrosion resistance, and electrical conductivity, used widely in electronics, automotive, and jewelry.

Plating

Powder Coating is a dry finishing process where a powder material is applied to a metal surface, then cured under heat to form a hard, protective layer. This coating is durable, corrosion-resistant, and available in many colors, making it popular in automotive, appliance, and consumer goods industries.

Powder Coating

Shot Peening is a cold working process where the surface is bombarded with small spherical media, inducing compressive residual stress. It's used to improve fatigue life and stress-corrosion resistance, especially in automotive and aerospace industries.

Shot Peening

Non-Destructive Testing evaluates material properties or detects flaws without causing damage. Examples include ultrasonic, radiographic, and eddy current testing, critical for aerospace, automotive, and energy sectors.

Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)

Pick and Place involves moving discrete parts from a supply or conveyor to specific locations in an assembly or packaging operation. This can be performed manually or by automated systems (e.g., robotic arms), optimizing throughput and precision in manufacturing and assembly lines.

Pick and Place

Inventory Management & Logistics plans, stores, packages, and ships finished parts using JIT, Kanban, and blanket-order strategies to optimize customer supply chains and reduce total landed cost.

Inventory Management & Logistics

Finishing & Assembly

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

A global standard for quality management systems focusing on continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.

ISO 9001:2015

An FFL Type 07, issued under 27 CFR §478 by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), permits the licensee to manufacture, assemble, and sell firearms and ammunition (excluding destructive devices). Holders may also engage in gunsmithing and are eligible to register as Special Occupational Taxpayers (SOTs) for manufacturing NFA items when paired with the appropriate SOT class.

Federal Firearms License – Type 07

Registration under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 22 CFR §122, with the U.S. Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC). It authorizes a U.S. person or entity to manufacture, export, or broker defense articles, defense services, or related technical data listed on the United States Munitions List (USML), and is prerequisite to obtaining ITAR export licenses or Technical Assistance Agreements.

ITAR Registration

Qualification on the U.S. Navy's Approved Emergency Propulsion System (AEPS) bidders list, authorizing companies to supply certified AEPS components for naval aircraft.

U.S. Navy Qualified Bidders List (AEPS)

Previous registration system for entities to do business with the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal agencies, now integrated into the System for Award Management (SAM).

Central Contractor Registration (CCR)

Compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), necessary for U.S. government and defense contracting.

FAR/DFARS Compliance

Cybersecurity compliance standards outlined in NIST SP 800-171, mandatory for companies handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in federal and defense contracts.

NIST SP 800-171 Compliance

Compliance with military specifications (MIL-Spec) and various federal standards required for aerospace, defense, and government contracting.

MIL-Spec and Federal Standards Compliance

Membership providing tooling and machining companies with industry standards, technical resources, training programs, advocacy, and peer networking.

National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA) Membership

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

Continental Precision machines AS9100D-compliant flight-critical brackets, rocket-motor housings, and hydraulic valve bodies for commercial aircraft and defense platforms.

The development, manufacturing, and supply of precision-engineered medical systems, devices, and critical components, including diagnostic equipment, surgical instruments, implantable devices, laboratory systems, and precision medical components. Emphasizes adherence to ISO 13485 and FDA QSR standards, traceability requirements, sterile processing, rigorous validation, and use of biocompatible materials such as titanium, stainless steel, and medical-grade polymers to ensure patient safety and clinical effectiveness across global healthcare settings.

Medical Devices & Healthcare Equipment

Continental Precision leverages ISO-grade traceability and micro-finishing to produce surgical-instrument stems, implant fixtures, and diagnostic housings to ±0.0005 in.

Encompasses the manufacturing, assembly, and integration of hydraulic power units, pumps, motors, valves, actuators, accumulators, manifolds, seals, and precision fluid-handling lines used to transmit power and control motion in industrial machinery, mobile heavy equipment, aerospace actuation, automotive test stands, and process-control installations. Production requires tight‐tolerance machining, contamination control, high-pressure leak testing, and compliance with ISO 4413/4414, SAE J1176, and NFPA fluid-power standards to ensure reliability, safety, and long service life in harsh operating environments.

Hydraulic & Fluid Control Systems

The design and production of large‐scale machinery, automation systems, and heavy equipment for industrial applications, where reliability and performance are paramount. Adherence to ISO, ANSI, and other applicable standards supports continuous operation under high‐stress conditions, with custom‐engineered systems often required.

Industrial Machinery & Heavy Equipment

Continental Precision turns and hones high-pressure hydraulic sleeves, spools, and manifolds with <0.8 µm Ra finishes for aerospace and fluid-power OEMs.

Continental Precision supplies precision machined shafts, couplings, and fixturing plates that improve uptime in automated assembly lines and heavy equipment.

Continental Precision, Inc. is a Phoenix-based precision machine shop founded in 1967. The AS9100D- and ISO 9001:2015-certified small business delivers multi-axis CNC milling, turning, EDM, and grinding for aerospace, defense, medical-device, hydraulic, and industrial OEMs. A Type 07 FFL, ITAR registration, and Navy AEPS qualification enable production of rocket-motor housings, firearm parts, and other mission-critical hardware. Its 6,475 ft² facility houses 5-axis machining centers, mill-turn, EDM, grinding, and Zeiss CMM inspection, providing tight-tolerance prototypes through mid-volume runs with proven on-time delivery.

AS9100D-certified precision CNC machining for aerospace, defense, medical, and industrial components.

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