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Engineering and Project Management Our engineering department
is staffed with mechanical engineers and technicians as well as experienced, hands-on
manufacturing engineers, planners and CNC programmers. We are completely computerized and all
engineering and project management work is done on line. This includes
computer aided design (CAD), manufacturing (CAM), project management, and
business management. We use a single entry
business and shop floor control program. We build an individual file for each
project which starts with your inquiry and grows to include material planning
and purchasing documents, manufacturing and quality work instructions, work
center loading and actual cost data. All work is performed to written
instructions contained in these project files, which are available from
computer terminals on the shop floor. These records are invaluable tools for
use in our capacity planning, scheduling, costing and continuous improvement
process. Our engineering,
purchasing, project management and quality assurance personnel are physically
located in the same area and function as a coordinated team. We work with a wide variety
of incoming customer documentation, ranging from completely specified build
to print packages to loosely defined concept sketches and specifications. In this age of increasing complexity,
many of our customers have found that they have little practical
manufacturing engineering capability and use us for input into their design process . We have found that we can add substantial value
when participating as a design team member. Many of our customers who use
concurrent design have been impressed with our ability to work in parallel
with their design effort while maintaining configuration control, schedule
and budget. We have the capability of
working from electronic files and often move directly from customer files to
CAM generated machine code. We
welcome electronic communication.
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