Industrial Machinery & Automation Tooling Manufacturing

Carbide Products Inc. provides precision carbide tooling, wear components, and complex machined parts for industrial machinery and automation applications where durability, repeatability, and dimensional accuracy are critical. With over 80 years of manufacturing experience, our team supports OEMs, automation integrators, and maintenance departments with advanced machining, grinding, EDM, and brazing processes — all performed under one roof in central Kentucky.

Industrial equipment operates in demanding environments with continuous duty cycles, abrasive materials, and tight production tolerances. Our expertise in carbide and hardened materials allows us to produce tooling and components that extend service life, improve machine performance, and reduce downtime.

Customers, Past and Present

• Parker Hannifin

• Stober Drives

• Visumatic Industrial Products

• Rockwell Automation

• Addtronics custom Automation

Engineering-Driven Industrial Machinery & Automation Manufacturing Partner

What differentiates Carbide Products, Inc is our ability to operate as an engineering-focused manufacturing partner for industrial machinery builders and automation equipment manufacturers. We are not simply a component supplier. We collaborate with design engineers, manufacturing teams, and procurement groups to improve component durability, manufacturability, and long-term system reliability.

With decades of experience producing precision carbide and wear-resistant components used in industrial equipment, we understand the importance of dimensional accuracy, material performance, and predictable lead times within complex equipment builds.

By combining engineering expertise with practical machining experience, we help industrial machinery and automation manufacturers reduce maintenance requirements, improve equipment performance, and maintain consistent production quality across demanding operating environments.

Our Industry Support Includes

• Design for Manufacturability (DFM) for forming tooling

• Geometry optimization for tool longevity and performance

• Material selection consultation for wear resistance and toughness

• Surface finish and coating preparation recommendations

• Prototype tooling development and validation support

• Production tooling repeatability and replacement programs

• Reverse engineering and redesign of legacy tooling

• Continuous improvement and cost reduction initiatives

• Manufacturing problem solving for premature tool failure

Tolerances & Precision

We are capable of holding extremely tight tolerances depending on geometry and material requirements. These tolerances are often in the range of +/- 0.0002” (5 micron) for our grinding and EDM processes. More recently, thanks to our acquisition of a few high end machining centers we are quickly getting down to +/- 0.0005” (+/- 0.012mm) for our mill and turning work centers.

Quality & Reliability

While our facility does not currently maintain formal certifications, quality control is embedded throughout our manufacturing process. We emphasize process consistency, experienced craftsmanship, and inspection discipline to ensure reliable performance in demanding aerospace applications.

To achieve the highest quality parts we have invested heavily in our inspection equipment. Each department has access to their own optical comparators, gauge pins, jo blocks, surface plates, and other metrology tools. Our milling department is equipped with their own Keyence optical inspection device allowing for easy setup validation and first part inspection and documentation.

Our inspection lab is equipped with a full range of gauge pins, jo blocks, micrometers, bore mics, and indicators. In addition to the traditional methods listed above our inspection lab is equipped with two state of the art Keyence inspection devices. Every inspection device that we have is serialized and subject to inspection and calibration on a regular basis.

Each job that goes through our shop is subject to inspection multiple times before process completion with final QC. Thanks to this process are able to create serialized and detailed inspection reports to ensure process traceability all the way to the material lot. Even if that level of inspection is not required for your parts we will record all final inspection data and store it on our server indefinitely because in our shop data is king.