Sixty percent of Anderson Global’s tooling sales are shipped globally, and the com- pany communicates with its international customers via television and computer screens housed in various locations in the shop, such as the CMM inspection room.


MCDP: How do you decide whether Anderson Global or


Express will quote a project? BM: Our sales and marketing


team works for both Anderson Global and Anderson Express, and whenever we are evaluating a new project or customer, we discuss where it will fit. Because we have both businesses, there is some cross-pollination on a few jobs. And sometimes due to demand, a job might graduate from Anderson


Express to Anderson Global. JM: It depends on the size of


priced tooling in a hurry. Sometimes they need CAD and foundry process- ing help they can’t get from a typical, smaller-sized tool maker. What we are trying to do is balance the advantages and costs of the latest technology. So it’s a situation where many times,


since we have new equipment and the latest CAD systems, we will be able to produce a set of tooling in maybe half the amount of direct labor hours as a smaller shop without CAD. Our cost per direct labor hours might be higher, but the number of hours is lower.


the project and what size machines it will fit on. We have larger capac- ity machines at Anderson Global. At Anderson Express, we are focused on quick turnaround, so we try not to get a project that will be on a machine longer than a week. 


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