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Making Customers’ Lives EasyCompass Precision is a leading supplier in CNC machined and fabricated parts. Compass makes components with demanding geometries, tight tolerances and exacting surface finishes. Some of the materials it works with are difficult to machine,...

R&D Debur Department Manager Earns High HonorBill Fender’s career changed forever one fateful morning. After taking a year off from work, Bill saw a job advertisement at R&D Machine while reading his daily newspaper. Bill called the company almost immediately...

Operations Manager Excelling at R&D MachineOLDSMAR, FL – January 28, 2025 – Katlin Pennison missed a chance to move to Florida when she was 18 years old. But she was always destined to be a Floridian.  At R&D Machine, she appears destined for big things. In...

2022 Second Half EOM Honorees Then and NowCompass Precision keeps a very high standard for all of its employees. Then, when an employee matches or exceeds that standard, they are rewarded. One of the most public ways Compass Precision rewards its employees is with its...

Advanced Machining Fulfilling Full-Range of Part Size CapabilitiesTo specialize in 5-axis CNC milling capabilities, a machine shop can’t have just one 5-axis machine. It also can’t have all 5-axis machines of a specific type. That’s why Advanced Machining &...

Abby Marino Solidifies Management Team at R&D MachineOLDSMAR, FL  – November 26, 2024 – The southernmost Compass Precision operating company, R&D Machine already had a strong management team. But it recently became stronger. R&D officially announced on...

Making It Happen, Making His MarkBill Canning (shown at left in photo above taken at customer location) has not quite reached his 2-year anniversary as COO at Compass Precision. That milestone will come in March 2025. But Bill’s Compass tenure hasn’t been short on...

Compass Precision Reaches Company MilestoneCHARLOTTE, NC - October 16, 2024 – A global pandemic. An historic national US election. A disruption in the supply chain. And of course, Taylor Swift dating Travis Kelce. A lot has happened over the last five years.  The same...

Picking the Right Milling OrientationCompass Precision added to its technical papers library last month with the release of a publication titled “When Is Horizontal CNC Milling Better Than Vertical Milling?” The authors are Justin Kovscek, Vice President & General...

Riding The Wave There 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....