Contract Engineering

Mel-Ba Manufacturing serves both the Commercial and Military Contract Engineered Markets. On the Commercial side, Mel-Ba’s customers include companies participating in the: Health Care, Aircraft Braking Systems, Off Road Vehicle Braking Systems, Burner Orifices and Lawn and Garden Equipment.

Military Contract Engineered Markets consist of supplying the Defense Logistic Agencies such as Defense Supply Center Richmond, Philadelphia, Columbus, TACOM, and Rock Island Arsenal, to name a few. The Federal Supply Classes Mel-Ba is capable of supplying are: 1670, 1470, 4730, 5305, 5306, 5307, 5310, 5325, 5342 and 5365.

Turned Products

Our Grinding capabilities including 1.66 sigma and greater on bearing journal tolerances of +/-.00015 “. By virtue of the nature of the equipment, we are capable of competitively supplying both low run volumes and high production volumes. The CNC lathes and Mills in addition to reducing tooling cost are capable of holding tight tolerances, resulting in high quality competitively priced products. Mel-Ba is also capable of supplying parts with plating, paint, heat treatment, bending, and assembly.

  Automated Operations Performed Materials Machined
  • Forming
• Shaving (+/- .001“)
• Threading
• Tapping		 • Slotting
• Drilling
• Knurling		 • Aircraft Alloys
• Plastic
• Aluminum
• Brass		 • Carbon Steel
• Alloy Steels
• Stainless Steels
• Tube and Pipe
• Copper

 

Equipment List

Our 23,000 sq ft. facility houses over 30 Screw Machines ranging from our, single spindle drill press to our 8″x16″ CNC machines. We have the capabilities to produce aircraft quality parts. MMI has been serving clientele with both metric and american standards and can meet specified tolerances up to 0.0001″ or 0.0038mm with a minimum of 1.33 CPK. Equipment is maintained by our on staff crew performing preventative maintenance as well as day to day upkeep.

Acmes
Qty. Sizes Function
3 3/4″ Six Spindle
3 1″ Six Spindle
2 1-1/4″ Six Spindle
1 1-5/8″ Six Spindle
2 2″ Six Spindle
Davenport
Qty. Sizes Function
1 3/4″ O.S. with secondary attachments for pick-off, threading, and tapping.
Brown and Sharpe
Qty. Sizes Function
3 1/2″ Capacity
4 3/4″ Capacity
4 1-5/8″ Capacity
1 2″ Capacity
2 2-3/8″ Capacity
Cincinnati Centerless Grinder
Qty. Type Function
3 #2-0M Grinders Redesigned with C.N.C. controls and auto loader.
CNC Machines
Qty. Size Function
2 2″ Hitachi Seiki 20SII lathes with 8″x16″ chucking capacity. Each machine has a LNS Hydro bar feeder.
2   Kitamura Myscenter-Zero vertical machining centers with 12″x18″ rotary pallets.