Modern Machine Shop: Better Production: A Critical Machine That Needs Moving Requires More Than Heavy Lifting
When your product is vital to the security and defense of America, there is simply no room for loss of critical capacity in the manufacturing process. Manufacturing engineers at Watervliet Arsenal (near Albany, New York) were keenly aware of this fact when they were recently faced with consolidating and relocating portions of the arsenal’s metalworking operations.
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Tooling and Production, May 2004
Re-manufacturing used to be commonly thought of as a last-ditch effort to extend the useful life of equipment already on the floor, while conserving capital for other purposes. At best a necessary evil, especially in hard times, but certainly not a first choice solution to the need for enhanced quality and productivity.
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