Outsourcing Bottlenecks Eliminated With Portable CMM
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Leica T-Probe Lets Company Enter Automotive Sector |
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As the ceiling of what is technologically possible gets pushed farther, deadlines get tighter and business partners increasingly set higher expectations on the parts delivered by subcontractors. In this cut-throat, make-it-or-break-it environment in which the question "When do you need it?" usually gets "Yesterday" as the answer, the room left for smaller companies is rapidly shrinking. Yet it is precisely this highly specialized marketplace in which SŽ Oprema from Ravne na Koroškem in Slovenia is thriving.
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| SŽ Oprema Ravne, a medium-sized company with about 120 employees specializing in the manufacture of pneumatic and hydraulic tools, was formed in 1997 when different parts of a former state-owned steelworks were broken up into separate private entities. Over the years, the company's management, lead by Darko Jevšnikar, its Managing Director, realized that in order to grow and stay competitive, the business had to diversify. They have gradually broadened their product portfolio to include welding cells for car body subassemblies for Mercedes Benz, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen, Volvo and others, offering these heavyweights top-notch quality without the premium price. Accuracy was assured using an in-house small-volume CMM or by outsourcing larger jobs to a competitor with a large-volume stationary CMM. |
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