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What’s New with Compass?: Q&A With CEO Gary Holcomb (September 10, 2024)
Riding The WaveThere is never an easy time to run a machine shop. Customers either want it all now, or nothing until next year. Good employees are hard or impossible to find. And making that next big machine purchase? Future demand visibility has never been cloudier....

Matt Searcy Named Compass Precision Employee of the Month for September (September 3, 2024)
Gray Manufacturing CNC Machinist Receives High HonorMatt Searcy has spent his entire life living in North Carolina. For the last seven years, Matt has called Gray Manufacturing Technologies his work home. General manager Evan Grose and the management team of Gray’s...

New Business Development at Compass Precision: Q&A With VP Sales Jim Miller (August 20, 2024)
Compass Growing in Space, Many Other MarketsCompass Precision is expanding its business into new markets at all of its operating companies. In particular, Compass is growing in the space industry. With that growth, now is a perfect time to talk with Compass VP Sales...

Where Are They Now: A Look Back at Compass Employees of the Month Jan-June 2022 (August 13, 2024)
2022 First Half EOM Honorees Then and NowCompass Precision has a high standard for its employees. When that high standard is met and even surpassed, Compass awards its people. One of the ways the company does that is with its Employee of the Month program. The honor...

Aaron Nelson Named Compass Precision Employee of the Month for July (July 9, 2024)
Douglas Machining Machinist Earns Outstanding AchievementAaron Nelson experienced a very successful tenure at Fastenal to begin his CNC machining career. That stint was approaching a decade, but then an opportunity knocked at the door. “Two former co-workers of mine...

Tri-Tec Expands Capacity With CNC Turning (Jun 25, 2024)
Company Set to Meet Customer Demands With Additional CNC Turning CapacityThe eight operating companies at Compass Precision will do just about anything to satisfy a need from a customer. The latest example of that recently occurred at Tri-Tec Industries. In May,...

Capitalizing on One-and-Done: Fast Tracking A New Customer Part (June 18, 2024)
Creatively Using Fixturing and Programming To Beat The Competition To MarketGetting to market first with a great product is a winning strategy. But in Compass Precision’s world, doing this with geometrically complicated parts is tough. Having plenty of 5-axis mills,...

Magic of Multi-Tasking Mill/Turn: Q&A With Keith Felts of Advanced Machining (May 14, 2024)
It’s Neither a Mill Nor A LatheKeith Felts, President of Advanced Machining (shown center above with Advanced CNC programmer/machinist Brandon Edds on left and R&D Machine VP & General Manager Justin Kovscek on right), started his company in 1985 after serving...

R&D Machine Receives Honeywell Supplier Excellence Award (February 27, 2024)
Compass Precision Shop Distinguishes Itself At Supplier SummitOLDSMAR, FL – February 27, 2024 – R&D Machine proudly announced Tuesday that it received a 2023 Supplier Excellence Award from Honeywell Aerospace at the company’s Space Supplier Summit held last week...

Better Than A Roll Up: Q&A With Compass CEO (February 20, 2024
Eight Shops Together Better than Eight Shops by ThemselvesCompass Precision would seem like an amalgamation of precision CNC machine shops, thrown together through financial engineering by modern versions of Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan. The company’s Pittsburgh...