All Fired Up
After Taurus Tool and Engineering, a manufacturer of custom cutting tools, lost its production facility in a fire, it was able to rebuild the business on an entirely new basis.
The company’s new facility in Batavia, Illinois, relies on this bank of 16 ANCA cutting tool grinders for its production needs.
After Taurus Tool and Engineering, a manufacturer of custom carbide cutting tools, lost its production facility to a disastrous fire, it was able to rebuild the business on an entirely new basis. New production methods and management practices enabled the company to achieve six essential goals.
- Provide fresh tool design thinking for better tool performance;
- Save all programs in one place and eliminate paper;
- Enable any machine to produce any tool;
- Reduce cycle times and improve turnaround times;
- Capture tool makers’ experience and eliminate tribal knowledge; and
- Make programming easy.
ANCA, a supplier of CNC tool grinders, played a key role in this recovery. Read the complete story, told from ANCA’s point of view is here.
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