Monsees Group has a staff of 20 and often keeps pace with demands of a growing workload by offering signifi- cant overtime. However, each new project that arrives may require a mixed skill set different from the one that preceded it. This can potentially put a severe strain on a conventional job shop of this size. Monsees Group President, Jason Spurling, said his company resolves this dilemma by cross- training nearly everyone on his staff.


“When you need to do anything that takes a lot of opera- tions, and you need five guys with a high level of skill on a tactical team, the number of shops that can accomplish that goes down, and value-added goes up. That’s why we do a lot of cross training. Most of the guys here can work in more than one department,” said Spurling. Programmers and increasingly machinists depend on


Mastercam software from CNC Software Inc. (Tolland, CT) to devise processes that drive down manufacturing costs and reduce lead times for Monsee’s projects. For flat plate work, programmer/machinists still use conversational programming


at the CNC machine. But for complex work, they use Master- cam exclusively. Working from computers stationed within 5' (1.5 m) of the machines, they have access to 17 CNC machines in all, including multiple wire EDMS, mills, lathes and a variety of mill-turn and five-axis equipment. Monsees Group has eight networked Mastercam licenses, including three Mill seats, one Lathe, one Multi- axis, and three seats of Mastercam Design. Although the company has other design software, programmer/ma- chinists usually find that it is easiest to stay in Mastercam Design to integrate design work such as building fixtures and model preparation when developing a manufacturing process for a given part. “We have found that the drawing aspect of Mastercam has improved so much that there is rarely a need for the other design software,” said Scott Alexander, programmer/machinist. Spurling, who does the quoting, frequently uses draw- ings made in Mastercam Design to create subtle changes Continued on P75


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