THE CHALLENGE SRPM is a small production job shop located near Cleveland, Ohio. It primarily serves the electronics, semiconductor, power sports and communications industries. Most of the work the company does is in new product development, in aluminum, and often involves large...
THE CHALLENGE Axxis Corporation produces parts used in the energy, aerospace, automotive aftermarket and medical device markets. The Perris, Calif., shop wanted to improve flexibility and labor efficiencies to drive down part costs for its customers. The company was looking...
Runoff Requirements 1100-piece runoff at 1.67 Ppk for selected features 1.0 on all other features Material Aluminum 380 Parts Automotive airbody Fixtures Hydraulic clamping, 8 parts per fixture Tooling Special...
Runoff Requirements 1.47 Cpk Tooling 12 tools Special tooling: Starter motor G-drills in long-reach pencil-style hydraulic chucks (Sandvik). Two-inch diameter, 5 inserts, SiN milling cutter for tappet bosses (Kennametal). Machines 4...
Boeing Phantom Works in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated to finding better, faster, and less expensive ways to design, develop, manufacture, test, operate, and support current and future systems. As part of this effort, Phantom Works has made industry breakthroughs in the areas of high-speed machining,...
In response to these dwindling lead times, Moldmakers evaluated its processes and realized an equipment upgrade would let them take on additional projects that had extremely short lead times. At the heart of the upgrade was a pair of Makino EDNC65 RAM EDM machines. AUTOMATED...
SITUATION Cincinnati Mine Machinery is a family-owned business serving several leading companies in the mining equipment industry. The company manufactures a variety of OEM and replacement components, with an emphasis on conveyor systems. Assemblies...
THE CHALLENGE It’s no secret that the right tools make all the difference, and Superior Machining and Fabrication Inc. in Muenster, Texas, knows that better than most. A company that built its own facility from the ground up in a town founded on a do-it-yourself (DIY) German...
THE CHALLENGE Waters Corporation is a global operation that designs, manufactures, sells and services precision analytical technologies, such as liquid chromatography (LC), mass spectrometry (MS) and thermal analysis. The company is regarded as a technology innovator, a premium...
THE CHALLENGE As the moldmaking industry grew more competitive, Build-A-Mold (BAM) wanted to apply a production mentality to its custom mold making in order to open up capacity. To accomplish this goal, the Windsor, Ontario, Canada, company knew that it could no longer operate effectively...