IPM/IMS Description

In-Place Machining Company, IPM, (and it's related Company, In-Place Measurement Services, IMS) is a medium sized, service based company. We provide customers with "in the field" machining and measurement services. These services are typically performed at the customers facility, on parts that are too large or inconvenient to take to a machine shop.

Market Niche

In-Place Machining Company is one of the world’s largest field machining companies. Our forte is having a large array of portable machine tools, and qualified field machinists that are available in a hurry. Many times our customer needs a machining repair to be performed on an emergency basis, and we respond 24 hours a day, 365 day a year. These portable tools are not small hand drills and grinders, but are fairly large or very specialized tools. For instance, we can turn a flange on a drum with a 40 foot diameter, re-grind a crank inside of a diesel engine without full engine disassembly, or repair a shaft without rotating it. If a machine is not available to do a specific job, a new one can be designed and manufactured to do the job.  In-Place Measurement Services is a separate and distinct company that provides stand alone measurement and alignment services and also does work for In-Place Machining Company.

Industries Served

In-Place Machining Company / In-Place Measurement Services serves many industries including:

1. Fossil and nuclear power generation

2. Hydro-electric power generation

3. Diesel propulsion and power generation

4. Machine tool users and manufacturers

5. Ship owners & agents, shipyards, and naval fleets

6. Steel & aluminum producers and general metal working

7. Pulp and paper producers, printing, and packaging

8. Other general industrial customer

Personnel

At present, In-Place Machining Company and In-Place Measurement Service combined employs about 75 people in 3 locations which include; in-house and traveling field machinists, certified welders, mechanical engineers, machine tool rebuilders, alignment technicians, laser and optical inspection technicians, sales & marketing, technical support for sales and quoting, accounting, purchasing, general office staff and computer/network engineers.

Sophisticated Engineering Department

In-Place’s engineering department is entirely computer based and has more than 40 years of collective experience. Our primary drawing tools are AutoCAD and Solidworks. We have recently added finite element analysis capabilities with Cosmos. Other engineering tools available are Mathcad, Techplot, Excel, and Visual Basic. We have a 1.5Mb/sec DSL line for fast access to the WWW. Each engineer has also been trained in the use of our FieldCMM™ laser coordinate measuring machine. As the jobs we get become more complex, the engineering department is starting to become more involved in the initial quoting and estimating phases.

Join In-Place Machining Company

At a medium sized company like In-Place, you will have the opportunity to make a difference. It is an extremely fast paced company that provides world class service to our customers. You will do something different each day, and every day will be a challenge. You will be learning something new all the time, from new software tools, ways of processing parts, new methods of machining, to seeing how things are done in industry (i.e. see steel being hot rolled, how electricity is made in a hydro, nuclear or fossil plant, be in the engine room of a large ship, see how paper is made and printed, etc…).

Is In-Place for everyone?

Probably not, but if you like the kind of challenge described above, In-Place Machining Company may be just the company for you!