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.

• Shiloah Mattoon - CEO

• General Machining
• Firearms Parts
• Customer Wiki

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.

These project details are limited because much of what they do is confidential and I maintain a separate wiki for IDL Industries. To avoid duplicating effort, all documentation is done directly in their wiki and only short descriptions are offered here.