Meet Lance Feeley, Director of Global Business Development at KMM Group, and discover how decades of manufacturing experience, engineering expertise, and relationship-driven problem solving help customers navigate complex precision manufacturing challenges from concept through production.
Meet Dan Costello, a Wire EDM specialist whose 45+ years of manufacturing experience and nearly 24 years at KMM demonstrate how persistence, craftsmanship, and problem-solving drive precision manufacturing. Discover the story behind the expert trusted with some of KMM’s most complex Wire EDM projects.
An engineering review before production evaluates manufacturing feasibility, inspection stability, and process capability after a purchase order is received. In precision machining and grinding environments, this step ensures designs can move into production with predictable quality and repeatability.
Design for Manufacturability (DFM) helps engineering teams align CAD design with real manufacturing physics before production begins. In precision machining environments, DFM reviews reduce scrap risk, clarify tolerance intent, and identify small design adjustments that significantly improve manufacturability.
Choosing a precision grinding partner goes beyond reviewing a drawing and receiving a quote. Successful grinding outcomes are shaped early, during the first technical conversation, when material condition, tolerances, surface finish, and inspection requirements are evaluated before assumptions turn into risk. This early technical review helps sourcing and production teams protect cost, quality, and delivery once production begins.
Quality at KMM begins long before a part reaches the shop floor. Estimator Joshua Brodbeck uses decades of grinding experience to predict risks and ensure every job starts with accuracy and confidence.
What does it really mean to pursue a career in manufacturing?
For some, it’s about being a maker. Working with your hands, turning handles, punching code and cutting metal to bring an idea into reality.
For others, it’s about pushing technology to its limits and expanding the boundaries of what’s possible. Solving problems no one has cracked yet and removing barriers to commercialization for the next great advancement for society.
And for a few, it’s about shaping the future itself. Taking a concept that can change lives and making it real.
The manufacturing landscape is evolving fast. Designs once considered “too complex to machine” are now standard requests. As components get smaller and performance requirements grow tougher, traditional machining centers struggle to keep up. The smarter move? 13-axis Swiss screw machining, which delivers the accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency modern programs demand.
When you derive purpose and meaning from a job well done and you know your contribution really matters, quality becomes more than a process. It becomes personal.
Have you ever broken a supplier?
Such a shame! You didn’t mean to. They gave you everything you could ask for: great communication, excellent problem solving, the desire to work together to overcome obstacles, fantastic quality. It’s a homerun. Until it’s not. Something gradually shifts. The quality dips. Lead times slip. You know them, and you know they’re trying to get back on track. But they can’t keep up.
