====== IDL Industries ======

===== About =====

IDL (pronounced Ideal) Industries, has been my primary employer since graduating college. They are a machine shop that manufactures products for the automotive and firearms industries.
Their capabilities include swiss style machining, 3 and 4 axis vertical machining, 2 axis lathes, and mill turning.

===== People =====

  * Shiloah Mattoon - CEO

===== Links =====
  * [[https://idlcnc.com/|General Machining]]
  * [[https://idlindustries.com/|Firearms Parts]]

===== Experience =====

IDL Industries has been an interesting place to work. I started on the floor as an operator because I was interested in learning about machining. The company decided to invest in some robots and so I was given the opportunity to pivot to something that was more in line with what I had studied. I still maintain the robots and setup new jobs, but in my free time I am tasked with tool management, wiki maintenance, internal web app development, and general maintenance tasks that are beyond the scope of what our machinists handle.

I really enjoy the broad range of tasks and the freedom to decide what to work on day to day based on what is on my plate. Being a small company and in only a few industries we have some cyclical crunches, but when things are light that gives us time to adapt and implement new processes.

===== Projects =====

  * [[projects:idl:automation_server|Automation Server]]
  * [[projects:idl:mes|Manufacturing Execution System]]
  * [[projects:idl:pneumatic_vise|Pneumatic Vise]]
  * [[projects:idl:production_report|Production Report]]
  * [[projects:idl:robodrill_cobot|Robodrill Cobot Tending]]
  * [[projects:idl:tool_management|Tool Management]]
  * [[projects:idl:wiki|Wiki]]