MDM Machine & Technology: Bringing Value to Customers Through Most sophisticated Lean Production Practices

MDM Machine & Technology: Bringing Value to Customers Through Most sophisticated Lean Production Practices

MDM Machine & Technology is a machine and manufacturing company operating out of St. Louis, Missouri. We like to define ourselves as a technology-driven modern machine shop serving a wide array of industries for their machine, manufacture, design, reverse engineering, production, assembly, and training requirements. As a CNC machine shop, we harness all the benefits of the new-age innovations toward streamlining our different production processes following the principles of lean production so that we can offer the best value to our customers. At the same time, our vast knowledge of and experience in the machine & manufacturing sector and in manual machining, derived from our 50 years+ presence in the industry, means that we can bring this knowledge to exploit best the modern technologies available at hand. This way, we bring the best of both worlds and fuse the same to ensure optimum quality and value to the services we offer.

At our St Louis machine shop, we serve a diverse base of clients covering industries like Telecommunications, Transport, Aircraft, Defense, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Industrial Solutions, Alternative Energy, Commercial Applications, to name just a few. At our precision machine shop St Louis, we also work with a diverse range of materials that include aluminums, brass, mild steels, tool steels, bronze, copper, cast irons, surgical steels, stainless steels, plastics, titanium, inconel, exotic plastics, phenolic, PEEK, ABS, GPOs, derlin, nylon, UHMW, PTFE, composites, woods, ceramics, graphite, and more. This gives an idea of the high-mix capabilities of our CNC machine shop, custom machine shop St Louis, and auto machine shop St Louis. At the same time, MDM is also open to orders both high-volume and low-volume and aims to provide equal value to every job it handles.

The core services that our precision machine shop St Louis offers are:

Custom CNC MachiningPrecision CNC MachiningCNC Production MachiningPrototype DevelopmentSpecialized TrainingReverse EngineeringFinishing and Assembly

Each of the above sectors covers a lot of ground and a wide array of activities and processes. At our CNC machine shop as well as our auto machine shop St Louis, we work with 2- and 4-axis CNC lathes, 3- and 5-axis CNC machining centers, 5- and 6-axis SWISS turning, CNC mill, CMM measuring, Wire EDMs, auto CAD, Solid Works, master CAM, surf Cam, etc. At the same time, we also host facilities for manual production and manufacture working with manual mills, grinders, manual lathes, etc.

In addition, we also offer specialized training programs especially for companies with in-house machine shops looking for specialized skilled labor for handling the machines and machine parts involved. We custom-tailor our training programs to fit the machines, production, and processes specific to our clients’ needs. This helps create a quick and effective workforce—something that even the best local tech schools cannot provide all the time. This becomes possible since our engineers and programmers have real-time experience of handling a diverse array of functions and activities and therefore, when they communicate this real-world knowledge to students, the latter often find it of great value. There are very few St Louis job shop facilities that offer training programs and this in itself should speak volumes about the highly qualified knowledge and experience we claim to have and benefit from at MDM.

Since our client base is diverse and we are always looking to expand our scope and build long-term relationships with our customers, we maintain a stance that enables the addition of new machines, staff, and processes to meet manufacturer’s needs. This, again, is something very few St Louis machine shop facilities can claim to do. In fact, there is a tendency prevalent in the industry that when a machine shop, even when it has diverse capabilities and experience to benefit from, looks to narrow its scope of operations once it has landed a large and consistent customer from a specific industry. Similarly, many shops handling high mix, low-volume jobs for a long time gradually narrow down their scope owing mainly to their inability to find an effective way toward lean production. And the ones that refuse to go down this path invariably suffer a reduction in growth rate and revenues and this ultimately leads to lower quality in production.

In stark contrast, MDM can continue to provide the greatest value to its customers thanks to our considerable investment in lean research which does not only track and review essential flow metrics, but also advices us on how to use that material flow metrics to streamline our various production processes in a way which will minimize waste and maximize value to our customers. This, ultimately, allows us to provide greater value to our clients than various custom machine shop St Louis and St Louis job shop facilities which work for specialized industries/areas.