Case Studies

How a Young Enterpreneur Built a Highly Successful Business Building Pulleys and Belt Drives for Industry.
The HL-25 is our smallest cnc slant bed lathe in our product line. It comes standard with a 20 hp spindle, 8 chuck, 12-station servo turret, tailstock, chip conveyor and a Fanuc CNC control. Rapid traverse rates are 1180 ipm (X) and 1417 ipm (Z). Optional accessories include a tool presetter, parts conveyor and bar feeder.

Aerospace Shop Reduces Setups With Boring Mill
Manufacturers embarking on a journey to fine-tune operations should heed this southern California shops advice: solicit customer feedback. Asking clients whats going right and what could be going even better can be part of any shops strategy to identify areas for improvement�regardless of the size or specialty. As this Torrance, California shop recently discovered, that feedback can be surprising and potentially lead to unexpected rewards

Machine Line Alleviates Workflow Bottlenecks
When Houston Oilfield Equipment brought its first FEMCO CNC lathe online in 2001, few would’ve guessed it would be the first in a long line of machines purchased from the Garden Grove, California-based supplier.