http://www.preciseplate.comPrecise Plate offers products and services including CNC machining, Blanchard ground steel plates, grinding, stress relieving and welding. Next day steel plate, quality inspection.www.preciseplate.com/news/20120213Precise Plate was in Mississippi last week to visit a customer. Precise Plate is trying to grow our influence in the southern part of the states. We would like to get more orders for plate, Blanchard grinding or machined plate and die sets in the southern states. In our work to grow this business we have built a quality manual and our manual mirrors ISO9002 processes. Mon, 13 Feb 2012www.preciseplate.com/news/20120130Precise sales team spent time in Kentucky and Tennesee last week. We were able to see some of the machining work that we have sent to that area. Hopefully we can find more machine shops that could use our services. I saw lots of machined plate that would fit Precise well. There is also a need for large CNC machining in that area. Hopefully in the near future we can get some Blanchard grinding work from the Tennessee area. Mon, 30 Jan 2012www.preciseplate.com/news/20120123Precise Plate attended the OESA meeting in Troy, Michigan last week. This was the first time to attend a OESA Meeting. It was refreshing to see all the shops in the Detroit area that are busy. It was also nice to network with other shops and to see if there is work in the Detroit area that would fit Precise. I also got to meet Less at American Jewelry and pawn. I did get to visit a few customers that Precise has never met before. Troy Michigan was really nice and hopefully we can find more machining/grinding or plate work in that area.Mon, 23 Jan 2012www.preciseplate.com/news/20120116Precise Plate is going to be in Michigan this week. On Thursay Jan 19th, 2012 OESA is going to be having a meeting on "Best Practices in Tooling". We will be there to listen to Laurie Harbour from Harbour Results discuss Currten tooling practices that drive cost reduction. While we are in Michigan we will visit with current customers and potential customers. We are excited about this week. Hopefully we will find some more customers that purchase steel plate, Blanchard grinding or order machined plate. Mon, 16 Jan 2012www.preciseplate.com/news/20120109WOW first full week from after the short work weeks after the Holidays. Precise hopes everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. We are back to work and ready to machine your plates, Grind your steel, build your mold bases or die sets. We are experiencing longer deliveries to our customers but are working on getting our deliveries back to where you need them. Please let us know if you need a shorter delivery than what is on our quote. We also want you to know our deliveries on our quotes are spot on. If we tell you 3 weeks, we will hit the 3 week delivery. You will not need to pad the deliveries on your end. Mon, 09 Jan 2012www.preciseplate.com/news/20111227Precise Plate hopes everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We are back to work and working on your plate jobs, Blanchard grinding and CNC machining. We will be open all week. Next week we will be taking Monday off to celebrate the new years. We want to wish everyone a Happy New years and be SAFE ! Tue, 27 Dec 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111222Precise Plate wants to wish all our customers a Merry Christmas! We hope everyone gets to take time off and enjoy their Holiday season with family and friends. In celebrating this holiday season we are going to be closed Dec23 through Dec 26th. We will be back on Tuesday the 26th. We will also take a day off on January 2nd. When we get back from the Holidays we will be ready to sell steel plate, Blanchard grind your material, machinie your plates to your prints, manufacture mold bases and manufacture die sets to your prints. Happy Hollidays to all of our customers!!Thu, 22 Dec 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111212At Precise we are striving to be more efficient to be able to provide our customers with a better less expensive product. In purchasing our new Johnford CNC gantry mill with through spindle coolant we have been able to try out some of the new tooling. We have been pleasantly surprised with the performance of this new machine and new tooling. These last couple of years we have worked on our efficiencies trying new tooling on our CNC mills, trying new grinding segments on our Blanchard grinders. Our hope is to be the shop where you would want to get your Blanchard grinding, plate machining, cnc work done. We are becoming the one stop shop for machining.Mon, 12 Dec 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111205Precise had our anual Christmas Dinner over the weekend at Abe Martin lodge in Nashville, Indiana. The dinner was very nice, good atmoshpere, great food and excellent company. We have been blessed with lots of plate, grinding and machining jobs this year.We are thankful for getting to work with the wonderful customers we have. Hope everyone is having a good year and we are ready to quote any Blanchard grinding work that you have.Mon, 05 Dec 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111128We hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving and were able to spend time with your family, friends and loved ones. We are all back to work and back to our normal working hours. Now we all get to get ready for the Christmas Hollidays. We are back and ready to quote all of you Blanchard grinding, plate, contract machining and die sets for you. Mon, 28 Nov 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111118Thanksgiving is coming very soon. We will be closed on 24th and the 25th of November. We are happy to be able to spend time with our family and friends. Precise Plate will be open 21 through the 23rd and will open again on the 28th of November. We wish all of our customer and friends a happy Thanksgiving. We will be ready for all of you plate, Blanchard grinding, die sets and any of your machining needs when we open back up.Fri, 18 Nov 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111117Fabtech show at the McCormicks Place was great. We were able to see lots of new ideas. A very good selection of die shops and machine shops. We were able to catch up with some old friends and customers we have not had in contact with since the downturn of the economy. Very good show and we plan on going next year. Hopefully have a booth at next years show. I was very excited to see pontential customers for our plate, grinding and machining department.Thu, 17 Nov 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111114Precise Plate will be going to the Fabtech show in Chicago at the McCormick place. We will not have a booth but we are excited to see the customers and friends we have made through the years. Let Precise Plate grind or machine your next plate job.Mon, 14 Nov 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111111We are really busy still. Our commitment to our customers are to hit our delivery dates, everytime. We have upped our hours and this Thanksgiving we will have a few people in here working to be sure we hit the deliveries we said we would hit. Our commitment on selling plate, grinding plate and machining plates are we will hit our delivery and honor the prices we have quoted.Fri, 11 Nov 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111108Precise Plate is receiving the Jack Daly sales program today. We heard about Jack Daly at the MAPP Conference and we are looking forward to applying his years of experience to our operation. Precise Plates hopes are we learn better customer service skills to make working with Precise Plate good experience for our customers. Our hopes are to be the best plate, blanchard grinding, plate machining, mold building vendor you experience.Tue, 08 Nov 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111104Precise Plate and Precise Mold attended the MAPP Annual Conference. Really exciting event, looking forward to applying what we learned and looking forward to next years MAPP Conference. Featured speakers were Jack Daly - world renowned sales and marketing expert, Steve LeFever - financial expert, Chris McCann President of 1-800-FLOWERS, Robert Raussmann - LEGO Serious Play, Jeff Mengel - Plante Moran and Laurie Harbour - President of Harbour Results. Excited about applying the information we received from Jack in hopes of helping serve our customers better at Blanchard grinding and machining plates.Fri, 04 Nov 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111024This has been a very busy year. We have received a lot of orders for plate, ground plate, machining and molds. We are excited about the amount of work. At Precise Plate we do a good job of hitting our deliveries. Being this busy has required us to watch our deliveries close. We currently are using a excel program that has our delivery dates for each order and now we are setting up the program with a start and finish date for each process of the work. At Precise Plate we want to be your choice vendor for grinding and machining needs. Call Tiffanny Laker for any of your quoting needs.Mon, 24 Oct 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111017This has been a exciting year for Precise Plate. With the switchover with Tiffanny Laker in inside sales. We have built up on Blanchard grinding capabilities. We have a 42" Blanchard and a 85" Blanchard grinder for any of your Blanchard grinding needs. We are running two shifts to keep up with your needs for any Blanchard grinding you would need. We also have our large Surface grinder for keeping plates flat and parallel. We also have received our new CNC mill. Our new Johnford Gantry mill is up and and running. We are now able to machine large machined plates while holding tighter tolerances. Let Precise Plate machine your next machined plate! We are alos now capable of machining larger die sets. We are looking into giving a Milled surface finish on the large die sets instead of just offering a Blanchard ground finish. With our large CNC Mills (Johnford, 122 x 72 and Hass 40 x 120) and our large CNC boring mills (96 x 106) we feel we are a good source for your large machining needs. Let Precise Plate machine your next large machined plate or Die Set.Mon, 17 Oct 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111017Precise Plate has started a Facebook page. We are new to social media but working toward understanding the needs of the younger generation. Hopefully we can build our Facebook page to meet this need. If you have any suggestions please contact Don Owen at Precise Plate 812-390-0770. Mon, 17 Oct 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111010Precise Plate has been fortunate this year. We have stayed busy Blanchard grinding, machining plates and building die sets. Hopefully the rest of the year will stay busy for all of us. Let Precise Plate quote your next Blanchard ground or machined plate.Mon, 10 Oct 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20111003Precise Plate is going to be at the MAPP Bench Marking show in Indianapolis at the end of October. Excited about seeing everyone there. Hopefully at the show we can meet and discuss opportunities to Blanchard Grind and machine plates for any of your needs.Mon, 03 Oct 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110926At Precise Plate our equipment is a good fit for machined table tops. With our Blanchard grinding capabilities and matched with our large CNC machines for machining. We can supply you machined table tops at economical prices.Mon, 26 Sep 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110919Precise Plate received a job for some 300 stainless steel forged rings that will be machined complete. We are excited about this order. We will get to use our new Johnford CNC gantry mill and also get to try out some new tooling. We hope to be more efficient on this new mill. Precise Plate has been blessed this year with lots of work. We pride ourselves in ontime deliveries. It is painfull to turn work down but we will stay honest with our deliveries that we give our customers Mon, 19 Sep 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110912Precise Plate is pleased with the performance of our new Johnford Mill. The CNC Gantry mill is really ridgid. The 1000 lb of coolant force will alow us to use the newer tooling. We are puchasing all new tooling for the new mill. We are excited about having a new machine/modern tooling and will be really efficient.Mon, 12 Sep 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110816Precise Plate has been running our new Johnford CNC Mill for a couple of weeks. We are excited and pleased with the performance of this machine. Our intention on this machine is to be able to run larger die sets at a more efficient rate. The Johnford mill along with our Has mills (Gear driven 6500 RPM and our Has 16500 RPM mills), boring mills will give us a large range of capabilites. We will be able to machine your larger plates and also be more precise on our locations and be able to hold the tolerances that you need. We are real excited about the machining capabilites the Johnford mill is going to give us. Tue, 16 Aug 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110808Precise Plate is doing well. We are currently running two shifts a day. We are grinding/milling/drilling/ manufacturing die sets/ building plastic injection molds. We are excited how this year has turned out and hoping everyone else is in the same boat with their workload. We are feeling bad that we can not get to all our customers request because of our workload.Mon, 08 Aug 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110801Johnford CNC Mill is up and running. We have our first job on the mill being machined. We are machining a sow block for a forging company. We are excited about getting to use our mill. Our hope we will be able to do large plate machining at a competitive price.Mon, 01 Aug 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110725We have received on new Johnford CNC mill and it is running. We currently are training on the cnc mill and should be up and runnning your parts towards the end of the week. Have a large vertical mill with a 70 x 122 envelope will really help us on: Machining large die sets, large plate machining. The newer technology on the CNC will help us be more efficient. Mon, 25 Jul 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110722Looking forward to the MAPP Benchmarking conference on October 27-28, 2011. To reserve reservations go to www.mappinc.com.Fri, 22 Jul 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110718Our Johnford CNC gantry mill was installed last week. The machinery movers are now installing the tool changer and we expect to be up and running by Wednesday of this week. We have a large forge that has been Blancard ground and milled on the edges and ends and the die is ready to start machining on Wednesday of this week.Mon, 18 Jul 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110711Our new CNC gantry mill is being installed now. Precise is hoping to be up and running in about 1 week. Our CNC has a travel of 70 x 122.Mon, 11 Jul 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110711Precise is happy to announce we are now a member of the INTMA. Mon, 11 Jul 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110711Precise Plate is pround to announce that we are a member of MAPP.Mon, 11 Jul 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110627Precise Plate is excited to announce we just purchased a Brand New CNC gantry mill. Our new mill should be on our floor next week. We have poured our pit and waiting for our machine to be delivered. Our new CNC Mill will have a travel of 70.7 x 122. Mon, 27 Jun 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110317Plant Tour at Precise Mold Columbus, IN March 17th Precise had a open house with the INTMA.This event was a huge success with standing room only!! Participants had the opportunity to tour the Precise facility, engage in structured cross talk with other senior machining professionals on the continuous improvement process, and learn from a senior industry analyst about the methods of recognizing and dealing with waste. Thu, 17 Mar 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20110125Precise Plate has finished our quality manual. Our quality manual is based on our process of getting work in our shop and out our door. We have based our procedure on ISO-900 format. We are pround to have our quality manual written and implemented.Tue, 25 Jan 2011www.preciseplate.com/news/20100719Precise Plate is now able to offer die sets. We have opened up our machining capablities and are able to supply your company with simple or machined die sets. Please call us for all your die set needs.Mon, 19 Jul 2010www.preciseplate.com/news/20100706Precise Plate is excited to now offer MDL components. We can supply your company with MDL pins, bushings, and die springs. We deliver most components within 1-2 business days and sometimes the same day for our more local customers. Please contact Tiffanny or Don for all your MDL component needs.Tue, 06 Jul 2010www.preciseplate.com/news/20100201Precise Plate is proud to announce that Tiffanny Laker is joining the sales team at Precise. Tiffanny Laker will be now the inside sales person for Precise Plate. We are happy to have Tiffanny taking over this position. Tiffanny will quote all: Plate/ Grinding and machining on the plate side of the company.Mon, 01 Feb 2010www.preciseplate.com/news/20090126Precise Plate is excited to now offer Aluminum plate to the machining industry. Precise Plate has great prices on Aluminum. We can sell full sheet, bars, channels, angles or plates. We also offer cut to size, circle sawing and waterjet to a specific shape. The types of aluminum we are excited about offering are the following. 6061 Mic 6 K100 3003 5052 7075 DuraMold-5 DuraMold-2 Alumold 1 Super Plate 6056 Mon, 26 Jan 2009www.preciseplate.com/news/20090118Precise Plate has purchased a large Boring Mill. We are excited about doing large piece machining. Our capabilites on the large boring mill are the followin: X travel with one setup is 103 inches , Y travel with one setup is 96 incheses. Our W travel which is the table is 48 inches. The spindle travel is 48 inches. Our Large boring mill is up and running and we are capable or running 24 hours at a time.Sun, 18 Jan 2009www.preciseplate.com/news/20080309Precise Plate is now capable of large plate Surface Grinding. In house we are capable of surface grinding plates up to 85" long. We also work with a company in Indianapols that is capable of surface grinding plates up to 100" long and 38 inches wide. For all of your surface grinding needs get ahold of precise plate. 812-390-0770Sun, 09 Mar 2008www.preciseplate.com/news/20080201Precise Plate is excited to just purchase a Large CNC VF11 Haas. The capabilites are High speed machining with X travel of 120 inches and Y travel of 40 inches. Precise Plate is using MasterCam for programming and can offer 3D machining or even simple holes put in a plate we provide or a plate that you provide. With this new CNC machining center we will be more competitive and capable of machining larger plates.Fri, 01 Feb 2008www.preciseplate.com/news/20071101The Precise Plates website has been successfully launched and will add a new dimension to the sales team at Precise Plate. Potential clients will now be able to access the latest information regarding Precise Plate services, machine listings and specs and also have the ability to ask a question to the Precise Plate management team. Current clients will now have the ability to request a quote online at their convenience.Thu, 01 Nov 2007www.preciseplate.com/news/20070425Precise Plate has purchased a Blanchard grinder. Our capabilites in house are 87" across corners. Precise plate is excited about this purchase and is ready to grind your steel plate or we can supply the material for us to grind.Wed, 25 Apr 2007www.preciseplate.com/news/20060725Precise Mold/Plate has a Faro arm we use for inspection. Our Faro arm is available for customer inpspection. We currently use our faro arm for reverse engineering on our customer parts and we also use for inspecting the plates that we machine in house.Tue, 25 Jul 2006