Palm-sized computer sales are booming as are its uses for discrete manufacturers who are taking advantage of new software and applications that have been devised for these small, lightweight and increasingly powerful portable computers.
Measuring inner and outer diameters of plug gages requires meeting a certain level of accuracy, and BorgWarner Morse TEC (Ithaca, NY), a manufacturer of automotive timing components, felt it wasn't consistently meeting those levels using a micrometer.
Anyone who knows anything about gears knows that gear manufacturing is a specialty requiring a great deal of expertise and expensive, dedicated equipment.
A well-trained machine tool operator can be a manufacturing plant's best asset, and a first line of defense against inefficient operations, low productivity and reduced quality.
Precision is the name of the game for most manufacturers. For LaVezzi Precision (Glendale Heights, IL), a contract manufacturer of high-end metal products, achieving precision of the parts it machines is essential to the company's success.