Cincinnati built the machine tools the country ran on, and today it builds jet engines and the precision parts inside them. We write and prove out programs at your machine, with quick response when the schedule demands it.
For most of a century, Cincinnati was known as the machine tool capital of the world, and its name is still cast into the iron of mills and grinders running in shops all over the country. The precision habit never left. It just changed products.
Today the region's anchor is jet engines: GE Aerospace is headquartered in Evendale, home to one of the world's largest engine manufacturing operations, and around it runs a supply base of precision machining, grinding and specialty processing through Blue Ash, Mason, West Chester and Hamilton, holding tolerances on rotating hardware where the drawing does not negotiate.
For the CMM, that means datum discipline, tight-tolerance reporting, and programs that have to prove themselves before anyone trusts the numbers. The CMM Programmer writes to that standard, here and everywhere else.
Not every measurement problem is a week long, and in Cincinnati it does not have to be. A one-day prove-out, a two-day first article push, a morning spent untangling a program that stopped agreeing with the gage lab: all of it is worth the call, with no airfare in the travel line and no minimum trip size standing in the way.
When the work is bigger, the full lineup shows up the same way: new programs written and proven out at the machine, coverage on your floor when the need arises, and training on your parts and your version.
Either way, the economics stay simple. You pay for the work and a short drive, and nothing else.
The work spreads across the metro: the engine-supply corridor through Evendale and Blue Ash, the northern suburbs out through Mason and West Chester to Hamilton, and the machining base inside the city itself. Wherever the machine sits, that is where we set up.
And when more than one facility in the area has work waiting, visits can be combined and the travel expenses split between them. We work with you to make the most sense of your workload, schedule, and budget.
New part programs written and proven out at the machine
An experienced contract programmer on your floor when the need arises, hourly or daily
First article dimensional reports built to satisfy your customer's quality requirements
Custom training on your parts, your probing, and your version
$125 per hour and $950 per day, the same rates as everywhere else in the country.
Yes, on-site CMM programming handles tight-tolerance engine hardware the same way it handles all the critical specifications our customers demand: disciplined datum structures, careful probe and stylus selection, alignments built the way the drawing specifies, and prove-outs run slowly enough to trust before anyone trusts the numbers.
The GE Aerospace supplier base around Evendale runs on exactly that discipline, and so do the shops feeding it from Blue Ash to West Chester.
Scheduling in Cincinnati is often the quickest we can offer, with short-notice visits realistic, no airfare in the travel line, and a single open day able to become an on-site day, so a machine that cannot wait usually does not have to.
Planned multi-day visits still book best with a week or two of notice. Urgent situations are worth a call regardless; we arrange travel around your dates the very best we can.
On-site programming coverage around Cincinnati runs across the metro: the engine-supply corridor through Evendale and Blue Ash, the northern suburbs through Mason and West Chester out to Hamilton, and the machining base inside the city itself, with everything close enough to reach inside a single engagement.
Across the river, Northern Kentucky is in reach the same way. If the machine is somewhere in the Cincinnati metro, it's close enough.
Validation of a new CMM program for production inspection is always your decision and your record, because you own the quality system that defines what evidence is sufficient to release a program into regulated production use, and that judgment cannot be delegated to an outside programmer.
We prove out programs at the machine, and we can support first article runs, correlation checks and repeatability studies during the visit. But the final judgment that the program is fit to run production stays where your quality system puts it.
Tell us about the machine, the parts, and the timeline. We will do our very best to plan around your dates, and it costs nothing to talk through it first. When a quote is the next step, a follow-up comes back with timing and a straightforward number.
