Quality
What drives defect rate down on a mature program
Fixturing and inspection process changes that cut a customer's defect rate by 72% without new equipment.
Precision CNC manufacturing
Tolerances measured in microns, not millimeters
Ferrotech manufactures precision-machined components for aerospace, medical device, and defense customers who cannot afford a part to fail in the field.
- In operation since
- 1987
- In operation since
- Parts shipped / year
- 1.2M
- Parts shipped / year
- PPM defect rate
- <12
- PPM defect rate
Trusted by teams at
- Aldergrove Turbine Systems
- Corvane Aerospace
- Halcyon Surgical Instruments
- Brightwater Hydraulics
- Stellmark Defense Systems
- Tarrant Valve & Controls
Capabilities
From prototype to production, in-house
We run five-axis CNC machining, wire EDM, and precision grinding under one roof, so tolerances stay consistent across the full production run.
5-axis CNC machining
Complex geometries machined to tolerances as tight as ±0.0002 inches on titanium and Inconel alloys.
Wire & sinker EDM
Precision electrical discharge machining for hardened materials and intricate internal geometries.
Precision grinding
Surface, cylindrical, and centerless grinding to finish critical dimensional and surface finish requirements.
Metrology & inspection
In-house CMM inspection with full first-article and lot traceability documentation for every shipment.
Low-volume prototyping
Rapid-turn prototype runs to validate design before committing to full production tooling.
Production-scale runs
Sustained production capacity for programs requiring tens of thousands of parts annually.
Parts that haven't failed in the field, since 1987
- On-time delivery
- 99.1%
- On-time delivery
- AS9100 certified
- Since 2004
- AS9100 certified
- Active production programs
- 64
- Active production programs
- CNC machines in operation
- 48
- CNC machines in operation
Program highlights
A few programs we can discuss publicly
Most of our aerospace and defense work is covered under NDA. These are programs our customers have approved us to reference.
Energy infrastructure
Aldergrove Turbine Systems
Redesigned the fixturing and inspection process for a turbine component program, cutting defect rate from 43 PPM to 12 PPM within two quarters.
-72%reduction in defect rate after process redesign
Industrial equipment
Brightwater Hydraulics
Compressed a prototype validation program from fourteen weeks to four by running prototyping and tooling design in parallel rather than sequentially.
3.4xfaster prototype-to-production transition
About Ferrotech
A family-founded shop that grew up alongside its customers
Ferrotech was founded in 1987 by a machinist who started with two manual lathes in a rented bay. As our aerospace and medical device customers' tolerance requirements tightened over the decades, we reinvested continuously in five-axis CNC and metrology equipment to keep pace.
- Traceability on everything
- Every part ships with full material and process traceability documentation, no exceptions.
- In-house metrology
- We don't outsource inspection. Every critical dimension is measured on our own CMM equipment.
- Stay in one facility
- We've stayed a single, continuously expanded Cleveland facility rather than diffusing quality control across sites.
- Reinvest in equipment
- A meaningful share of annual revenue goes back into machining and inspection equipment every year.
Leadership
Carl Meszaros
President
Denise Osei
VP Quality
Victor Halloway
VP Operations
Rosa Delgado
VP Engineering
What program managers say
“We moved a critical turbine component program to Ferrotech after a defect escape with our previous supplier. Three years in, we haven't had a single field failure.”
Gordon Blackwell
VP Supply Chain, Aldergrove Turbine Systems
“Their in-house metrology caught a dimensional drift our own incoming inspection would have missed. That's the kind of supplier you want on a flight-critical part.”
Naomi Ostrander
Quality Director, Brightwater Hydraulics
“Full traceability documentation on every shipment, every time, without us having to chase it down. That alone saved our compliance team hours every month.”
Theo Vukovich
Procurement Manager, Halcyon Surgical Instruments
Shop floor notes
Notes from our engineering team
Process
Running prototyping and tooling design in parallel
How we compressed a fourteen-week prototype validation program down to four weeks.
Metrology
Why we still inspect everything in-house
The traceability and quality case for keeping metrology under the same roof as machining.
Frequently asked questions
Aerospace, medical device, defense, and energy infrastructure customers requiring tight-tolerance precision machined components.
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