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Gear Manufacturer Gains Efficiency With Tool Management System
When producing a large number of complex, high-value-added parts, processes are continually examined and optimized, and this influences the style and numbers of cutting tools that are used each day. Avon Gear Company (Rochester Hills, Michigan) know...
Speed, Flexibility And Adaptability Are Key In Shop Management Software
It was 1999, and Precision Plus of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, was fairly satisfied with its 10-year-old DOS shop management software. However, the vendor would no longer be providing DOS updates.
Getting A Handle On Operational Data
This shop looked at shop control software demonstrations from six vendors. They eventually decided to install 17 networked PCs with Windows 95 software plus this shop management program.
Estimating Software Yields Higher Profits
Until early 1999, the shop quoted all its jobs using an Excel program developed in-house. Then, they began to use an engineering-based estimating program that provided more accurate representations of actual operating costs.
Automating Software Ends Scheduling Nightmares For Job Shop
When Jean Pitzo stepped up to the CEO position of Ace Metal Craft in 1989, she found she had also stepped into a scheduling nightmare.
CNC Shop Feels The Impact Of Shop Management Software
Littlestar Plastics, Inc. located in Machesney Park, Illinois, has been providing CNC-machined plastic components to the electrical, food processing and equipment manufacturing industries since 1992.
Disk Grinding Machine Manufacturer Controls The Paper Flow
Controlling manufacturing information is now a priority for most metalworking companies.
Machine Shop Finds New Uses For Aerospace Technology
When most machine shops in California's aerospace industry were closing their doors, one machine shop's doors opened wider.
