Content tagged with "customers"
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December 1, 2008
The real world of 3-D CAD assemblies
Figure 1a
This sheet metal bracket model is an example of an assembly of components.
We live in a 3-D world, so it makes sense that metal fabricators would work with 3-D CAD assemblies as a typical part of their work life. Fortunately, working with 3-D CAD assemblies also has many... Read more...
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November 1, 2008
3-D CAD drawings in a 2-D world
Fabricating is all about meeting the customer's expectation. That is hard to do if you don't know what they want. One of the best tools for communicating those expectations is with a drawing.
That insight has been around for a while. After all, our ancient foremothers drew on the walls of... Read more...
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October 1, 2008
Thinking inside the box
Sometimes it matters how things fit together. It is always nice when holes for screws align properly and when connectors fit in their mounting holes. When modeling a design for an assembly in 3-D CAD, you might find one technique to be useful: top-down design. As a point of reference,... Read more...
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September 1, 2008
3-D CAD strengthens customer bond
For many of the job shops that I've visited, the 3-D CAD system investment was largely a marketing decision; the goal driving that decision was customer service. I recently asked a job shop owner what prompted the purchase of a 3-D CAD system, and part of the answer reaffirmed the... Read more...
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June 17, 2008
When customers and suppliers file bankruptcy
Although economic growth in recent years has resulted in fewer business bankruptcies, increasing signs of economic slowdown may mean that fabricators will soon see more of their customers or suppliers file for bankruptcy. Effect of Bankruptcy Filing on Claims Once a company files a petition... Read more...
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October 10, 2006
Growing, growing ... gone?
Fabrication jobs for Custom Tool & Mfg. Co. sometimes are very large and intricate in nature. Some customers left, but a contract manufacturer finds new ones on the Web In its 25 years of operation, Custom Tool & Mfg. Co. (CTM), Lawrenceburg, Ky., has grown from a small fixture and... Read more...
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August 14, 2003
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April 24, 2003
Siege planning or strategic planning
Soon after that comment, toward the end of a globalization workshop titled China and the Middle Market Manufacturer, organized by GSSC and Harris Bank/Bank of Montreal, one frustrated attendee, likely representing a company that had never before been affected, lamented what many... Read more...
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April 10, 2003
Superior Service—Why you need it
Industrial customers value good service even more than retail customers do. They depend on their suppliers to deliver goods on time, just in time, so that they can meet their own customers' needs. And they can measure a supplier's substandard service in terms of lost sales and profits.... Read more...
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February 15, 2001
Managing innovation in the factory
The common view that new things start in a research and development lab is not always true. Some useful innovations come right off the factory floor. Even more result from an effort to solve a customer's problem. Twenty years ago, Eric von Hippel, a professor at Harvard Business School, found... Read more...
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