Southern Machine Works (SMW) is a world-class manufacturer of precision engineered CNC components.  SMW provides make-to-print contract machining services to the Aerospace, Defense, Weapons, and many other industries.    Whether your need is for prototypes, a short run of parts, or many thousands of parts; SMW is a technically sophisticated partner that understands your needs for high quality, on-time delivery, and cost containment.

Southern Machine Works offers these advantages:

SMW is a seasoned contract manufacturer well-suited to produce high volume, high quality components in a culture of a Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement.  SMW is a reliable partner to provide for your JIT production needs: on-time and top quality.

Continuous privately held ownership stability and support with over five decades of concentrated machining experience

A balanced team of engineers, machinists, and headed up by a CPA with roots in contract machining, public accounting, &  business leadership.  Our senior management team has over 100+ years of combined contract machining business experience

Account management by a Mechanical Engineer with 25+ years of machined goods experience

Parts machined in our 25,000 sq-ft Climate Controlled Facility

Full redundancy in both milling and turning equipment to ensure repeatability of set-ups, and no lost production time due to equipment failure or maintenance

Pro-Business, Non-Union workforce

A culture of continuous improvement and training

AS9100D & ISO 9001:2015 certification

NIST Traceability on all measuring and test equipment are calibrated to, certified, and traceable back to the National Institute of Standards and Technology

ITAR, DDTC, SAM registered with USA Department of State

07 FFL registered

Certified HubZone Small Business

For over a half a century, Southern Machine Works has Supplied machined parts to top OEM's nationwide.

Established in 1964, Southern Machine Works was purchased in 1974 by Frank Burch. Currently, two generations of the Burch family, along with a talented team of engineers, machinists, and other professionals, actively work to build and maintain the Company's postion as the preferred provider for the precision machining and fabrication needs of its cutomers. Our business continues to thrive by embracing continuous improvement, innoavtion, unyielding quality, and by placing a high emphasis on our customers experience with SMW. Our goal is to become an irreplaceable supply chain partner for our valued customers.

Conservative business practices have allowed Southern Machine Works to attract and retain high quality machinists even during economic downturns. The average tenure of the company's employees is over 7.5 years with over 20 % of its employess having a tenure of 15 or more years.

As manufacturers of Aeorspace, Defense, and Weapons, we place utmost care on the security and privacy of our customers sensitive data. SMW practices continuous improvement methodology to augment our IT data infrastructure and privacy training of our workforce. Our facility is fully ITAR compliant and is closed to the gneral public. Meetings are by appointment only.