Design Services
Overview
Asbury Machine is an extremely versatile machine shop that specializes in medium to high volume production. Our engineers manufacture your parts from start to finish, including material sourcing, machining, specialty coating, and specialized packaging. We are capable of producing parts up to 12” in diameter, 60” in length and 500 lbs. Because accuracy is a key part of machining, our typical tolerances are down to +/- 0.001” and we regularly support special features down to +/- 0.0001”. These tight tolerances allow us to provide for all of your CNC machining needs. Our precision machining capabilities include deep hole gun drilling and 5-axis milling, in addition to standard machining operations such as turning. Wolfram Manufacturing has experience with engraving both simple and complex custom designs, and is capable of engraving your part with an end product logo or markings for serialized traceability. Further, we partner with the best vendors and tool manufacturers in the business to best serve you.
Services include:
- Parts Manufactured per Specification
- Temperature Controlled QC Room
- First Article Inspection Guaranteed per Operation
- Inventory Parts
- Great Customer Service
- Autodesk Inventor
- Mastercam 2019
- In-Process Quality Control
- Blanket Orders
- Welding of Machined Parts (Not Custom Fabrication)
We work with a variety of materials including but not limited to –
Alloy steels: 4130, 4140
Cast Iron: Dura-Bar – G2, G2A, G2P
Carbon steels: 1018, 1026, 1045, 8620
Stainless steel and nickel alloys: 304, 316, 410, 416, 17-4, 13 chrome, Nitronic 50 and 60, Inconel 625 and 718, Duplex 2205
Aluminum alloys: 6061, 7175
Case Studies
Short Run Production
Asbury Machine’s strength in short run production (5-200 pieces) makes our customers more competitive. Wolfram’s support of a leading manufacturer of gate valves manufactured entirely in the USA is one example. The high demand for their semi-custom products and the competitive nature of the market means very short lead times with large fluctuations in volume. Taken together these challenges make them the perfect customer for Wolfram Manufacturing. Overnight orders are a regular occurrence to allow our customer to go the extra mile for theirs.
Quality: Inspection documents provided with every order
Tolerances: +/- .0025”; Typically 20-30 Overall Dimensions
Delivery: 99% OTD
Pricing: Competitive with in-house production
In just over a year, Asbury Machine was able to learn the majority of our customer’s product line and make procedures for them. Within 4 months Wolfram increased production by 100%. After learning their product line, Wolfram’s General Manager worked with the customer’s planning department to anticipate needs based on their scheduled work. With extensive documentation and process control, Wolfram is able to expedite set-ups and respond quickly as the customer needs. The single piece flow process allows Wolfram to make partial deliveries upon request and turn around work in as little as a day.
Volume on Demand
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At Asbury Machine we use mature project planning and execution to meet any customer challenge. One such challenge involved a customer with a strong product line and in house production capabilities that was looking for a 5x increase in production capacity, a decrease in material consumption, and reduced lead times on their parts. Asbury Machine was able to keep pace with the customers ability to procure material and in 3 months their dream was a reality. Wolfram has produced roughly 10,000 of the parts made from Durabar Cast Iron to date. Our current steady capacity for these parts is about 6,000 per month with surge production easily over 10,000.
Quality: Zero Customer Returns
Tightest Tolerances: +/- .0025”; 35 Overall Dimensions
Delivery: 100% OTD based on promised due dates
Pricing: 15% lower pricing than previous vendor
By working closely with purchasing we’ve been able to time our deliveries to our customer’s needs and increase production from 300 units per week to 1,500 units per week on average. Communication with Quality & Engineering departments have made this part so stable that Wolfram was the first supplier this customer chose to start a reduced internal inspection program. To achieve the steady state run rate many tools were deployed – thoughtful process design, active machine in-cut monitoring, robotic machine tending, and statistical automated machine offsetting. To make sure the capacity was reliable and available in a surge we tooled up to make sure the part can run on 2 additional machines not in the cell – and all 3 of them concurrently when needed. This gives us the flexibility to increase production to 2,500 per week, about 10,000 per month but also achieve truly exceptional accuracy to our customer need dates.
