Lakota Industries

Lakota Industries, Inc. is a precision machining company in Marysville, Washington. It makes high and low mix parts in high or low volumes for aerospace, defense, science and commercial customers, and also provides prototyping and tooling services.

Capabilities

• General machining of production quantities in plastics, aluminum and steel
• Multi-axis programming, high speed machining and complex tooling applications
• Highly cosmetic precision parts, using machines with high speed spindles

Machining centers

The company lists these machines, all with 4th axis capability:

• 1 Enshu GE460H horizontal machining center with 4th axis pallet system
• 1 HAAS EC400 horizontal machining center with 4th axis pallet system
• 3 HAAS VF-4 SS high speed milling centers
• 8 HAAS VF-2 SS high speed milling centers
• 1 HAAS SL-10 turning center with continuous bar feeder

Quality control

Every machining center has a tablet where in-process inspection data is logged for each job. First article inspection is done for all part orders, with final inspection before shipping, and first article or statistical sampling data can be supplied on request. Inspection tools are traceable to NIST and calibrated routinely. Inspection equipment includes Tesa Hite height gauges and a Mitutoyo optical comparator.

Certifications and approvals

• AS9100D (AS9100:2016)
• ISO 9001:2015
• ITAR registered