An independent contract CMM programmer for the times your schedule can't cover: a departure, a leave, a backlog, or a machine nobody has learned yet, booked by the hour or the day, anywhere in the country.
Contract coverage exists because the need almost never arrives on a convenient schedule. The common shapes:
Two weeks is not long enough to recruit a metrologist, but it is long enough to have temporary coverage with us booked before the position goes empty.
Medical, family, or military leave lands at inopportune times. Interim coverage from The CMM Programmer helps keep the CMM running and parts shipping until your person is back.
New part numbers queued up, ECNs stacking, and a machine that measures less than it could. A block of contract weeks helps to burn the backlog without adding headcount.
The machine arrived before the programmer did. Our coverage bridges the gap, and the programs written during it are built clean for whoever takes over. Then we can help train them when they arrive!
CMM programming is far more specialized than most people realize. A general staffing agency fills the request by searching resumes, which means weeks of waiting to interview strangers who may or may not know PC-DMIS from Excel.
Here, the person who answers the email is the person at the machine: thirty years of metrology, quoting the work directly, often on your floor inside the same week. No markup layered on a stranger's rate, no bait and switch on who shows up, and no learning curve to pay for.
Project work instead of coverage? See the full CMM programming services page
Coverage runs hourly or daily, sized to the need. When the need outgrows the plan and the calendar allows, the visit simply extends. When the calendar is already spoken for, the options get laid out honestly and worked through together, because the same commitment that protects your dates is the one protecting everyone else's. Overtime and weekend rates are available.
Work runs under your safety rules, your quality system, and your production schedule. Reporting goes wherever your quality manager wants it.
Programs written during coverage are documented and left organized, so the next programmer, including your own returning one, picks up without missing a beat.
To start, just shoot us the dates, the machine and software, and what the days need to cover.
$125 per hour and $950 per day, published in full on the pricing page.
Just send us the dates needed, the machine and software, and what the days need to look like. A follow-up comes back with availability and a straightforward quote. Then we'll be on the next flight, Uber, or Segway to help out!
