About Wrightwood Precision Products

Quality

For over 40 years and three generations, Wrightwood Precision Products Company has been instrumental in making the world a more precise place. It has been the policy of Wrightwood Precision Products Company to manufacture products with the finest possible workmanship that meet or exceed customer specifications. Wrightwood's quality objectives are Zero Defects, Complete Customer Satisfaction, On Time Delivery, Continuous Improvement, and Complete Elimination of Waste. The structure of our quality system meets the requirements of ISO9001:2000. The ISO 9001 quality standard provides a framework by which quality assurance in design, development, production, and servicing our customers is established, documented and maintained.

Since the International Organization for Standardization's inception it's importance to international suppliers and global customers has grown significantly. Wrightwood has implemented the ISO standard to provide a framework for processes that result in quality output, continual improvement and customer satisfaction.

For further information on ISO 9000 International Quality Standards, please visit www.iso.ch.

Reputation

From its first piece in 1966, through its millions produced to date, Wrightwood Precision Products Company has built its reputation as a supplier of precision machined components by providing its customers with quality, on-time products at economical prices. It was a reputation of superior machining skills that started Wrightwood Precision Products Company. At the urging of former employers, co-workers, and industry leaders, John Folker, our founder started Wrightwood to fill the gap in quality swiss machining in the Midwest. His ideals and attitude toward hard work, fair play, and innovation have been passed on to the generations that followed. The results are evident in the continual growth and development of the company, and many of the original customers are still customers to this day.

Experience

Wrightwood Precision Products Company strives to provide positive working conditions for all employees, including professional and personal development, comprehensive benefits and a pleasant work environment. This has resulted in the retention of key personnel and the current average employment of 15 years per employee. These many years of experience, complimented by a wide variety of over 100 machines, gives Wrightwood Precision Products Company the ability to confidently machine materials that range from aircraft grade aluminums to specialty alloy steels, copper and brass, to space age plastics.

Capability

Our software and wireless capabilities allows us to accept your electronic data in almost any format, anywhere in our shop for our professional staff to review. All of our team leaders in our CNC departments are trained, programming experts in their area of expertise. In our non-CNC departments, tool design and job layouts fall under the responsibility of our equally trained team leaders in their respective area of expertise. Other services that make us unique in the industry are our competencies in tool design, tool grinding, cam design and cam making. With these disciplines under one roof, your rush orders can be produced quickly and efficiently.

In our turning departments, Wrightwood Precision Products Company has the capability of machining round or extruded shapes, diameters of less than 1/16" to 6", quantities of 100 to millions with the total tolerance of .0002" not being an unusual request, and from all types of metals and plastics.

In our milling department, we have the capability of machining small castings, near net shaped product, or from solid stock, with a machining window of 30" x 16" x 20".

In-House Controls

All process engineering and programming as well as tool design, tool making, set-up, grinding, threading, milling and secondary operations are accomplished in-house, assuring the highest degree of quality control.

Attention to detail and workmanship standards monitored by the team leader and quality control manager, assures a close tolerance, high precision part at a reasonable price. Using NIMS (National Institute for Metalworking Skills) recommended training practices, our machine operators are required to totally understand your requirements and certify their ability to obtain those requirements before proceeding. All of our team leaders are required to complete Wrightwood's OJT training course provided by our own NIMS Certified Trainer.

Service

We at Wrightwood Precision Products Company take pride in service to our customers as we take pride in our quality products. At anytime during office hours (7:00am to 5:30pm), our friendly staff is ready and willing to provide you with the information you require. However, because we are a family owned, small business, our customers can also reach the top level of management of our company should that need arise.