Speedgrip Chuck Company, founded by Fred Earnest and his son Richard Earnest in 1946, is a manufacturer of high-precision, customized workholding equipment for CNC machine tools. From its Elkhart facility, the company sells to a diverse set of customers and industries, including automotive, aerospace, defense, off-road and construction, and health care.

I encourage our customers to take full advantage of our design experience. In the course of a year, a typical manufacturing engineer will see at most a handful of new parts. Our designers will see that same number of parts in an average week, and we have the added advantage of being exposed to manufacturing processes across the entire spectrum …

Jeff Boyer received the Oustanding Support Award from the Whittemore Company for 2018. Congratulations Jeff!

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I’ve said this before, but it really is fun to be a chuck designer.  We never know what new challenges await us when we open up a request for quote folder that has come over from our sales department.  Our customers are continually asking us to help them push the envelope. In this blog post, I will share two quote …

Automotive Industry Application – Fast and Highly Accurate Part Inspection   The application:   An automotive component manufacturer needed to 100% inspect a critical feature on a high production volume turned part.   The challenge:   The production was very high, and the large daily quantities needing to be inspected demanded a rapid and reliable way to check the  runout …