SHOP SOLUTIONS Continued from P25
CAM Helps Company Target High-Value Parts
onsees Group (Rochester, NY) has successfully navi- gated the treacherous waters from being a near-captive operation to being a highly effective competitor in the world of high-precision complex part manufacturing. It has achieved the transformation by leveraging the talents of its multidisci- plinary team of engineers and programmers and Mastercam’s advanced CAM capabilities to effectively compete for com- plex, high-value-added part manufacturing assignments. About 12 years ago, 70% of the work in progress at the Monsees Tool & Die was dedicated to a single customer. When work from that source evaporated almost entirely, the company did some soul searching and concluded that what they could offer customers was a staff of talented engineers and programmer/machinists with an average
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of 20+ years of experience. It was the right mix of talent that could team up to manufacture complex componentry and tooling that frequently required multiple operations on EDMs, mills, multiaxis equipment, and close tolerance ID, OD, and fl at surface grinders. To emphasize this teamwork, the company changed its name to Monsees Group and added two other important con- siderations to its value proposition—an emphasis on both lead- time and cost reduction with nearly every project undertaken. Today, Monsees Group is not as reliant on a single cus-
tomer, but the optics/photonics industry does comprise about 50% of its business. A signifi cant amount of work also comes in from the aerospace, defense, and injection molding indus- tries. About half of all these jobs are one-offs—for example, test benches, tooling and fi xtures for high-precision manufac- turing operations, or machine parts that the company reverse engineers from damaged components. Other assignments are long-term projects that might require hundreds of hours of programming, often for parts with more than 200 dimensions.
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