Inspection-ready manufacturing Greenville, South Carolina

Inspection-ready, from first article to full-rate production.

Blue Ridge Aerostructures machines, bonds and assembles flight hardware for defense and commercial aerospace programs. Every characteristic is planned, inspected and documented — and the record travels with the part.

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Location: Greenville, South Carolina
In-house: Precision machining · Composite structures · Assembly integration
Support: Quality assurance · Engineering support
Serving: Defense and commercial aerospace programs
Focus: Documentation with every part

Machined aerospace component being cut on a five-axis machining centre — Machining cell — Greenville, South Carolina

Capabilities

Five operations, run in-house.

Each capability below covers a process we run under our own roof, from raw material through a documented, shippable assembly. Open any line for detail.

01 Precision machining

Machined hardware for airframe and structural applications, produced against documented setups and work instructions. Fixtures, tooling and cutting parameters are recorded so a repeat order runs the same way as the first one.

Setup sheets & work instructions
In-process dimensional checks
First article documentation

02 Composite structures

Layup, cure and trim of composite structures, handled in a controlled shop environment. Ply schedules, cure cycles and material lots are captured from receiving through finished part.

Ply schedule & layup records
Cure cycle documentation
Trim, drill & finish operations

03 Assembly integration

Sub-assembly and integration work carried out on dedicated tooling. Fit and interface checks are performed while the assembly is open, and the build record is written as the work progresses rather than reconstructed afterwards.

Tooling & fixture control
Fit & interface checks
Build record packages

04 Quality assurance

Inspection plans are written from your drawing set and kept current through production. Dimensional results, material records and nonconformance history stay together with the part, so an auditor can follow one thread from receipt to shipment.

Inspection planning
Dimensional reporting
Nonconformance control

05 Engineering support

Manufacturing engineering involvement from early review through rate production: drawing and tolerance review, process planning, and controlled handling of design changes as the program matures.

Drawing & tolerance review
Process planning
Configuration & change control

Conformance

Evidence, not assurances.

Quality assurance is embedded in production at Blue Ridge, not bolted on at the end. These are the characteristics we verify and record on every program.

Dimensional conformance

Inspected to the drawing set and reported characteristic by characteristic.

Material traceability

Lots, receiving records and handling history trace back to the finished part.

Process documentation

Setup sheets, work instructions and inspection plans kept current with the build.

Nonconformance control

Anything out of specification is contained, dispositioned and closed with a record.

Assembly fit

Interface and fit checks performed on the tooling before the assembly is closed.

Final release

Every shipment leaves with its inspection package attached.

Coordinate measuring machine probing a machined part in a metrology area — Metrology — dimensional verification of a machined part

Inspection sequence

How a program moves through the shop.

The same four stages apply to a single development part and to a released production line item.

Program review

Drawing set, tolerances, material and schedule are reviewed together. Open questions and manufacturing risks come back to you in writing before anything is cut.

First article

The first piece is built on production tooling and inspected against every characteristic on the drawing.

Documentation & release

Inspection results, material records and process documentation are compiled into a package you can audit and archive.

Rate production

Once the first article is approved, the same process, tooling and inspection plan carry the program into full-rate production.

Large aerostructure subassembly mounted on tooling on an assembly floor — Assembly integration on dedicated tooling

Contact

Start with the first article.

Tell us about the program. Send the drawing set, the quantity and the target schedule, and we will respond with a capability review and a proposed inspection path.

Capability review against your drawing set
Proposed inspection and documentation plan
Clear first article and rate production milestones