Like many businesses, the machining industry covers a broad range of capabilities at various associated costs. Only the very largest organ- izations can come close to claiming they are "all things to all people", but in order to maintain such a broad array of production processes requires staff (i.e. bureaucracy) and money (i.e. overhead costs). Companies who adopt such a diverse approach cannot match the pricing and customer service of mid-market, more focused shops, such as Northern Precision Products.

Northern Precision Products is an "Acme screw machine shop". As such, our specialty is turning bar stock into such products as sensor housings, valve bodies, hose barbs, bushings, caps, adjuster bolts, hubs, couplers, sleeves, stems, and nuts for high volume, precision industries.

The NPP machining equipment includes the following machines:

If customer requirements call for it, NPP can procure an even greater range of machining capabilities through our established alliances with other regional machine shops. These include small piece/quick cycle Davenport turning and multi-axis CNC machining.

The "bottom line" in any operation is not in defining what you can do, but rather what you excel at doing. At Northern Precision Products our machining "Sweet Spot", where we can provide the greatest value proposition to our customers, is described below.

Northern Precision Products "Sweet Spot"

• bar-fed "single drop-off" machining
• two-axis machining
• broaching
• machining grades of bar stock, especially free-cutting brass
• threads, either internal, external, or both
• round or hex rod with a diameter of ½" to 2"
• part lengths from ¼" to 3"
• minimum specification tolerances of +/- 0.002"
• "zero-defect" expectations
• minimum order quantities of 20,000 units, with weekly deliveries
• accommodation of short-notice delivery schedule "drop-ins and pull-aheads"