Southern Machine Works, Inc.

Southern Machine Works, Inc.

About Us

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