Getting a machine onto its pad in Wichita is rigging. Getting it to run true is millwright work — set on its anchors, leveled to the builder's spec, shafts and couplings aligned, and the line put back together in order. Across the Wichita metro, the crew that moved it is the crew that makes it ready to run.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides millwright & machine installation in Wichita, KS and the surrounding metro. We set, anchor, level, and align industrial machinery and reassemble conveyors and lines, so equipment is handed off ready for utilities and start-up. Our crews work across Wichita and nearby Kansas metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
A machine that arrives in one piece can still fail on start-up. A soft foot, a coupling a few thousandths out, a conveyor transfer that sits proud of the next section — those are installation faults, not transport faults, and they show up as vibration, bearing wear, and scrap. In Wichita's aviation manufacturing (Spirit, Textron, Bombardier) plants, that is the work a millwright is there to prevent.
Badass Logistics sets equipment on baseplates and foundations, positions anchor bolts, chocks, and shim packs to the layout, levels to the builder's spec with precision and optical tools, and aligns motors, pumps, and gearboxes by laser or dial indicator. Electrical, piping, and grouting stay with the trades that own them — we sequence around them. When the machine is new, it can arrive as project freight; when it is being relocated, the move and the installation are one job.
Millwright work in Wichita is set by what has to be installed: fuselage and wing assembly jigs, CNC machining centers, autoclaves and composite curing equipment, sheet-metal forming presses, and riveting and structures assembly tooling, each with its own foundation, anchor pattern, and leveling tolerance. Those machines serve the metro's aircraft fuselage and structures manufacturing, general aviation and business jet final assembly, aerospace tooling and precision machining, and aerospace composites fabrication, where a drive train a few thousandths out shows up as vibration, bearing wear, and scrap long before anyone calls it an installation fault.
Wichita, KS runs on aviation manufacturing (Spirit, Textron, Bombardier), and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same millwright services standards across the region:
Wichita's industrial base — aviation manufacturing (Spirit, Textron, Bombardier) — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Large machine envelopes, documentation expectations, and secure-site access rules shape every move. Typical millwright jobs for Wichita customers include:
The floors matter as much as the machines. Wichita's plants are large clear-span single-storey aircraft assembly and fabrication hangars built for full fuselage and wing sections, and an older slab is often why a machine needs a new pad, re-drilled anchors, or a grout crew before it can be leveled at all. Most of our Wichita installation work lands in the aerospace manufacturing district surrounding Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, the Spirit AeroSystems campus, and the Textron Aviation (Cessna and Beechcraft) campus.
Equipment set on baseplates and foundations, anchors and shim packs positioned to the layout across the Wichita metro.
Machines leveled to the builder's installation spec across the Wichita metro.
Motors, pumps, gearboxes, and driven equipment aligned by laser or dial indicator across the Wichita metro.
Conveyor sections, transfers, and production lines reassembled in order across the Wichita metro.
Plenty of Wichita jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-70, I-35 and I-135, or a facility in another state. We don't hand that part off. It runs as project freight inside the same plan: machines crated or prepped on site, loads sequenced to the rig-out, transport through our licensed broker and carrier partners with dedicated capacity for bigger moves, and our crew waiting at the destination to set it.
Every millwright & machine installation job in Wichita, KS is quoted from the actual work, not a rate sheet. These are the things that move the number — send them with your request and you'll get a real quote back fast:
Photos of the equipment, its nameplate, and the path out of the building save a site visit on smaller Wichita jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Wichita crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Wichita? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Wichita, KS and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Millwright & Machine Installation throughout Wichita and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Derby | Sedgwick County | 11 mi |
| Andover | Butler County | 11 mi |
| Haysville | Sedgwick County | 9 mi |
| Newton | Harvey County | 25 mi |
| Park City | Sedgwick County | 8 mi |
| Bel Aire | — | — |
| Goddard | Sedgwick County | 13 mi |
| Maize | Sedgwick County | 9 mi |
| Valley Center | Sedgwick County | 10 mi |
| Hutchinson | Reno County | 41 mi |
| El Dorado | Butler County | 27 mi |
| Winfield | Cowley County | 37 mi |
| Arkansas City | Cowley County | 47 mi |
| Augusta | Butler County | 20 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Wichita services or get a quote.
Most Wichita jobs don't stop at one service. The crew that rigs a machine out is the crew that manages the move and sets it back down — so you're dealing with one company from the disconnect to the re-level, not three subcontractors pointing at each other.
Machine has to come off the floor, through the door, or onto a pad before it travels? That's the rigging side of the same Wichita crew.
Wichita riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Wichita as one accountable job.
Wichita machinery moving company →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Wichita.
Wichita CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Wichita plants.
plant relocation in Wichita →In Wichita we also run riggers, machinery movers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Wichita.
The same Wichita crew also handles machinery removal and crane and rigging services.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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