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Parts range in material, size and complexity. As a job shop with 3, 4, and 5 axis milling, Swiss screw machines, and mill turn they can manufacture pretty much anything.
it has on offer, but not as much as we should. We need to dedicate more time to learning what is possible on it. We figured two of our guys could tag team learning it, but our lathe foreman who is managing 6 other lathes, and the 5-axis guy is inundated with 5 axis work. It’s great that
we are so busy, but not ideal to learn a new machine. I have no doubt that it will be cranking out insane parts soon, but it will take us a little time to gain comfort in running it to the level it is designed for.”
“The future is 5- axis for us,” concludes Jon. “Going forward we will continue to increase our 5 axis capabilities. We will undoubtedly buy another UMC, and after that get a larger Japanese 5 axis for longer production runs. We bill ourselves as a high-tech job shop that runs everything from exercise equipment to aerospace. Other shops of similar size in the area don’t have near the capabilities we do and we like it like that.”
Jon’s parents met at a grocery store and fate had it that they shared the same birthday. He’s an extension of their destiny and carrying on the M&M Machine legacy is something you can tell is very important to him.
Maybe his kids will want to do the same someday. He might even use working on the machines as a punishment when they get older. It worked out pretty well for him.
Jon Duckett handles QC for M&M Machine. He utilizes the Keyence XM1200 handheld CMM to measure one of the many aerospace parts they produce.
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