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major aerospace OEMs. The company is also licensed for the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) for exporting products out of the country. Company president John Tajirian is most proud of winning Lockheed-Martin’s coveted Supplier of the Year award in 2011, because it represents many aspects of the relationship, not only part quality and delivery, but also characteristics such as cooperation, receptivity, communica- tion, and responsiveness. “It is a great honor,” Tajirian said.
Planning is Paramount It’s an honor over a quarter-of-a-century in the making, with the ongoing refinement of an approach to the parts- making business that works at KT Engineering. That approach in a word: Planning.
“Even when we get an order in that isn’t due for a year, we schedule a meeting usually within ten days of receiving it,” said Tajirian. Applying the just-in-time production theory as
The CNC Programmer reviews toolpaths in Mastercam before running a repeat order of a titanium hinge component used in a jet fighter program.
it’s described in text books can put a subcontract shop in an awkward position at times. Our idea of just-in-time is three to six months ahead preferably.”
That being said, KT Engineering can fulfill emergency orders from existing and even new customers quickly, thanks to all the planning the staff does for material, tooling, and redundant machine tools on the floor of the 25,000 ft2
(2325 m2 ) facility.
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Further sustaining that philosophy of thorough preparation, most of the com- pany’s 26 employees have support and planning roles to champion all the activi- ties done in advance of production, as well as post-production follow-through— finishing, assembly, and shipping. For example, when the company receives a project (often via Exostar, the secure col- laboration media channel predominantly used in the aerospace industry), one of the early tasks is to place an order for the raw material. The team determines a shipping date, which could be months ahead, and follows-up with the material source at plotted intervals to ensure the inbound date is still on target. Regarding equipment redundancy, several CNC ma- chines are duplicates of the same brand, perhaps stepped in size, from three-axis VMCs to heavy duty four- and five-axis HMCs, some less than two years old. The company even has two CMMs, which is unusual for a manufacturer of this size. “We are a subcontract business.
We have to be flexible and ready for whatever work comes in. Having redun-
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