Machining conceptions Inc.

Machining conceptions Inc., Cedarburg, Wis., serves clients in the automotive, electrical-component, hydraulic-fitting, and food-service industries. Because of its small size, 10 to 12 full-time employee and its customer base, Machining conceptions relies on just-in-time manufacturing, maintaining alone a small inventory for several of its customers. Accordingly, the company sometimes has to react quickly to customer exigencys

"We literally live and die by way of our fixturing, our ability to fix up and tear down," says company president Wayne Beebout. That l to a reassessment of

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