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Top Shops Profile: C&M Machining

C&M Machining was the 2016 Top Shops Honors Program winner in the category of business strategies.

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is 2016’s Top Shops Honors Program winner in the business strategies category, given attributes such as its high profit margin, growth rate and quote-to-book ratio compared to other shops.

The 100 percent woman-owned shop was founded in 2005 by Cheryl K. Miller with a vision of becoming a leading CNC precision machine shop providing competitively priced, accurately machined components to the aerospace industry. In fact, 99 percent of the company’s sales comes from the aerospace industry in job orders ranging from single prototypes to millions of parts. C&M Machining is an AS9100-certified manufacturing company specializing in interior and structural components and assemblies for aerospace, defense and outer space applications.

End Markets Served

  • Aerospace
  • Defense

Workpiece Materials Commonly Machined

  • Aluminum alloys
  • Brass
  • Bronze
  • Plastics
  • Tool steel
  • Steel alloys
  • Titanium

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