Ridge Forge
A contract manufacturer on Oakview Court, serving customers across Ohio and the wider Midwest.
Why we say no
Ridge Forge was founded to make parts properly for customers who were tired of first-article surprises.
Our people had all worked in shops that quoted everything. It is not dishonesty so much as commercial instinct: a quote costs little to produce, declining one costs a relationship, and there is always a chance the job runs fine.
When it does not run fine, the customer carries it. A part that fails inspection is a delayed programme, a rushed replacement, and a supplier relationship that ends badly for both parties.
The buyer had no way to know. Five quotes arriving for the same drawing is read as five shops confirming they can make it, and that is not what it means.
So we quote only what we genuinely suit, publish tolerances we hold across production rather than achieve occasionally, and describe the right kind of shop when a part is not for us.
And we quote lead times against real loading. The date we give accounts for the work already on the floor, which frequently makes us the slowest quote on the table.
What every customer can expect
Honest capability
Equipment, envelopes, and production tolerances published as they actually are.
Declines explained
Where we will not quote, we say why and describe the shop that should.
Lead times against loading
Quoted from the actual schedule, including when that makes us slower than others.
Inspection supplied
Dimensional reports as standard, including measurements that sat close to the limit.
Material traceability
Certificates retained and supplied on request for every production run.
Our scrap is ours
Parts we make wrong are remade at our cost, without a conversation about who is responsible.
What we need to quote properly
A drawing with tolerances, not a model alone. A solid model tells us geometry. It does not tell us which dimensions are critical, and quoting without that means either over-engineering the process or discovering the critical feature at inspection.
The material specification, including condition. The same alloy in different conditions machines differently and costs differently, and assumptions here are a common source of quote variance between shops.
Realistic quantities and call-off pattern. Setup dominates cost at low volume. A part quoted at five hundred and ordered in batches of twenty is a different job, and we would rather price the real pattern.
Finish and treatment requirements. Plating, coating, and heat treatment are usually subcontracted operations with their own lead times, and omitting them from a drawing produces a quote that is missing weeks.
Where information is missing we ask rather than assume. That makes our quotes slower to arrive and considerably more likely to be the price you actually pay.
Who you will work with
Iris Garcia
Operations Manager
Runs the floor and the schedule, and makes the decision on which enquiries we quote and which we decline.
Managing Director
Leadership
Founded the shop and set the policy of publishing production tolerances rather than best-case ones.
Quality Manager
Quality
Seventeen years in dimensional inspection and supplier quality across automotive and hydraulics.