Compass Precision Reaches Milestone With R&D Machine Change can be painful, but it is often good too. That’s been the general experience at R&D Machine the past two years. On April 26, Compass Precision celebrated the two-year anniversary of its purchase of...
Doing Milling A Better Way Compass Precision focuses on doing tough projects. A few weeks ago, we talked to CEO Gary Holcomb (above, second from left) about the company’s manufacturing strategy. More so than most CNC shops, Compass depends on its 5-axis machines to...
Being Absolutely Certain Complex Parts Are Dimensionally Correct Compass Precision excels at making difficult components. Often these parts are geometrically complex, the kind that simple two-dimensional drawings struggle to describe. And frequently these components...
Using All of Compass’s Resources to Keep Aerospace Project On Track Compass prides itself in its ability to handle difficult projects, the so called “tough stuff”. These projects often involve machining complicated geometries, maintaining exceptionally tight...
Better and Faster With 5-Axis CNC Milling Compass Precision has dozens and dozens of advanced CNC machining centers. But perhaps the most impressive are its complement of twenty-one 5-axis milling machines located at Advanced Machining (Salisbury, NC), Gray...
Gray Manufacturing Shop Floor Lead Meets the Challenges of 5-Axis Chris Adkins has been in the machining business for nearly 30 years. He has spent about one-third of that time at Gray Manufacturing Technologies, LLC. He once tried to leave, but that didn’t go too...
