Reid Supply Company has an exhaustive catalogue of industrial supplies, but no supplier can carry every conceivable piece of industrial equipment down to the individual component. This is why Reid Supply announces its own state-of-the-art precision tool components and machining company to create industrial products on demand for clients, via their sister company Total Quality Machining (TQM).

Industry demands sometimes call for modifying existing industrial parts. When trying to solve a problem, it is often better to rework existing parts rather than starting from scratch and designing and buying all new industrial products.

“Reid, through TQM, is able to fully customize many standard industrial parts that we have on-hand, as well as create new industrial products,” says John Carrier, President of Reid Supply Company. “This service is not offered by our competition and allows our customers to get exactly what they need.”

Reid Supply’s TQM machine shop staff employs high-end computer numerical control (CNC) programmable machining centers to provide their clients with the right solutions to their custom industrial equipment needs. With programmable CNC machining equipment, their vast library of CAD drawings acts as a virtual template for controlled and precise production, which is a necessary component of custom industrial equipment work. While there are plenty of craftsmen that can do amazing custom work on industrial supplies, programmable CNC tools provide reproducible accuracy and precision for both small and large size batch orders.

“If a client ever needs to re-order a custom job, all of the information remains on file and ready to be used to fulfill further orders,” says Carrier.

Custom work on industrial supplies is like a moving target. Sometimes a set of custom tooling balls is required, and other times a rework has to be done on entire systems. TQM works on both sized scales. They can create custom workholding solutions, manufacture non-standard size industrial supplies, and work all the way up to custom industrial equipment systems.

“Our TQM clients have business needs that range from the small to the very large, so we match our machining capabilities to those requirements, says Carrier. “Ultimately, all of our clients receive the same level of precision on industrial products whether they are components with very tight tolerances or a rework of an entire system.”

Reid Supply and Total Quality Machining subscribes to the ‘do it right the first time’ mentality in order to guarantee exceptional performance in all of their standard and custom industrial products.

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Adding surface finishing to processing capabilities of vertical turning centers, automatically changed Grinding Attachment allows finishing of ID, OD, and plane surfaces on parts up to 185 in. diameter. VTCs equipped with 22/33 kW grinding attachment can produce better than 10 µin. finishes and roundness of less than 60 µin. with diameter size control of 0.001 in. Utilizing wheel sizes up to 15.75 in., attachment produces 295 lb-ft torque and max speed of 3,000 rpm.

Grinding Attachment optimizes efficiency of VTCs.