What do you do when your customer asks you to go from 50 pieces a week to 1,000 pieces a week? And to top it off, when you get back to the shop, three of your other customers double their quantities, all of your machine time is booked, and the employment ads have no responses. Call Compumachine's applications department. That's just what our customer did.

The answer came in an exhaustive time study, fixture design and a recommendation to purchase a Compumill-Kasahara HMC-410 horizontal machining center equipped with 60 tools, 12,000 RPM spindle, special chip conveyors for handling of small chips, and round the clock operation.

The result: Time cycles are reduced by over 70%, and six Compumill-Kasahara HMC-410's later, he is delivering more parts in the microwave industry than 80% of his competition, on time with excellent finish.

From tombstone selection, to custom fixtures, to program training, to round the clock service, Compumachine is here to help our customers grow, increase efficiency and bring it to the bottom line.

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(Courtesy of Sandy Bay Machine)