Human Driven Special Processes Are a Vital Link in the Aerospace Supply Chain Magnetic Inspection Laboratory (MIL), a company that provides special process services like anodizing and cadmium plating to aerospace prime contractors, has been an approved supplier to Lockheed Martin for more than three decades. The company began in 1942 as a one-man operation that examined parts for the U.S. Government. Today, Magnetic Inspection Laboratory provides five broad categories of services, including chemical processing (CP), coatings (CTG), nondestructive testing (NDT), shot peening, and welding and brazing, at its 120,000-square-foot facility in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, about a 15-minute drive from Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Mike Noettl, a special process engineer at Magnetic Inspection Laboratory (MIL), said that the company’s special processes are a vital