common machine squeezes out extra work through eliminating multiple-machine operations.

common machine squeezes out extra work through eliminating multiple-machine operations.

It's a familiar tale to many shops: A supplier to the auto industry was beneath pressure to increase throughput. Ramping up production, however, required that the store not only have the ability to manufacture its complicated parts with vastly shorter lead times unless also the flexibility to curb quality. It found that accomplishing the two with separate machining operations was impossible, in such a manner it combined the operations forward one machine -- a multitasking turn/mill center

HR Krueger of Farmington,

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