About
Built in a machine shop.
Milford Machining & Fabrication is an Ontario business registered in 2023 in Prince Edward County. Axiom is its computational engineering division.
Where we come from
Behind MMF is more than ten years of CAD and machining, alongside industrial machinery design, fabrication, installation, machine safety and automation controls. We take equipment from first sketch to a commissioned, wired and documented machine on the floor.
Why Axiom
Some parts are too complex, or change too often, to draw by hand. Computational design solves that by encoding the engineering rules and generating the geometry from them. Axiom is the division that does this work.
It is grounded in hardware we have designed, built and installed: positioning systems, material handling, control panels, off-grid power and structures. Every rule we write is checked against how the part will be cut, welded, wired and maintained.
Our flagship project, RDE-2, was designed end to end this way. We share images and outcomes only; technical details are withheld for export-control reasons. Read how it was designed →
Selected work
A cross-section of past projects. Renders are being added.
- Machinery
Gantry positioning system
Bespoke multi-axis gantry, designed, built and commissioned for a production task.
- Machinery
Box flipper and conveyors
Custom box flipper with matched infeed and outfeed conveyors.
- Machinery
Gas-spring steady arm
Custom articulated steady arm with gas-spring return to an adjustable home position.
- Controls
Vacuum control panel rebuilds
Industrial vacuum system control panels rebuilt, rewired and documented.
- Controls
Tank autofill monitor
Level monitoring and automatic fill control for an industrial tank.
- Energy
Off-grid security container
Solar-powered monitoring container with Starlink connectivity.
- Energy
Solar command trailer
Mobile command station with a deployable solar panel mechanism.
- Energy
Dual-axis solar tracker
Solar array that follows the sun on two axes.
- Energy
Full-hemisphere solar tracker
Second-generation tracker: two stacked slew drives give full hemispherical sky coverage.
- Architecture
Architectural elements
Fabricated architectural features, from model to installed piece.
- Aerospace
Long-endurance UAV
Solar uncrewed aircraft whose whole airframe spins like a propeller.
What we value
- 01
Make it buildable
A design is finished when it can be made, not when it renders.
- 02
Say what it is
Plain scopes, fixed quotes and honest timelines.
- 03
Leave it maintainable
Native files, documented rules, labelled wiring. You shouldn't need us to change it.
- 04
Respect the rules
Export controls, IP and confidentiality handled before files move.
Equipment
Machining
- CNC lathe
- CNC mill
- CNC plasma table
Welding
- TIG
- MIG
- Stick
Software
- Rhino 8 (CAD)
- PicoGK / Axiom computational stack