Precision Is a Discipline
Meccanica CNC is a full-service precision machine shop in Smithfield, Rhode Island. We machine parts for people who cannot afford a surprise — aerospace, medical, defense, and the industrial builders who supply them.
On-Time Delivery
1998
Facility
Smithfield, RI
Certification
ISO 9001:2015
Compliance
ITAR / EAR registered
Our story
Built Around One Standard
Meccanica started in 1998 with two manual lathes and one customer who needed parts nobody else would quote. The machines have changed. The reason customers call has not.
We grew the way a machine shop should grow — one process at a time, and only once we could hold the tolerance reliably. Turning came first, then milling, then Swiss work for the small complex parts our medical customers kept asking about. Inspection was never an afterthought; the CMM went in before the second Swiss lathe did.
Today the floor runs eighteen machines across three shifts, and every part that leaves it carries documented traceability back to the material certificate. That is not a marketing line. It is the reason an aerospace buyer can put us on an approved vendor list and stop thinking about us.
We would rather turn down a job than ship a part we cannot prove.
Mission and vision
What We Are Here To Do
Two statements we hold ourselves to. Both are short on purpose — a mission nobody on the floor can repeat is not a mission.
Our mission
Make the part right, prove it, and ship it on time.
We exist so that an engineer can release a drawing and stop worrying about it. That means holding the tolerance on the first article and the ten-thousandth, documenting every step, and telling you early when something on the print will cost you money.
- Hold the tolerance the drawing asks for, not the one that is convenient
- Put the inspection record in the box, every lot
- Say no to work we cannot do well
Our vision
The shop New England's toughest parts come to first.
We are building the machining partner that aerospace, medical and defense engineers name without checking a list — because the tolerances are tighter, the documentation is cleaner, and the answer to a hard part is yes more often than anywhere else within a day's drive.
- Grow capability before capacity
- Invest in inspection ahead of production
- Train machinists rather than hire around the shortage
What we hold to
Four Things That Do Not Flex
Values are only worth printing if they cost something when you follow them. These do.
Precision first
If a process cannot hold the print reliably, we change the process — we do not widen the tolerance and hope the inspector agrees.
Say it in writing
Measurements, material certificates, revisions and nonconformances all get recorded. An answer you cannot produce a document for is an opinion.
The date is the date
Measurements, material certificates, revisions and nonconformances all get recorded. An answer you cannot produce a document for is an opinion.
Own the mistake
A bad lot gets contained, reported and root-caused the same week. Nobody here is rewarded for a problem that stayed quiet.
By the numbers
Capacity You Can Plan Against
Figures from our last full production year, reviewed at our annual ISO audit.
Years machining
CNC machines
%
Sq ft facility
%
Parts shipped
Certifications and compliance
Paperwork That Holds Up
Available to customers on request, and to auditors without one.
ISO 9001:2015
Certified since 2011, recertified annually by an accredited registrar.
ITAR / EAR registered
Controlled technical data handled under a documented process, US persons only.
AS9102 first articles
Aerospace-format reports as standard. We are not AS9100 registered.
NIST-traceable calibration
Annual, with certificates on file and a documented recall schedule.