THE CHALLENGE Extreme Precision located in San Jose, Calif., is a production job shop that manufacturers parts for a variety of industries, from aerospace to medical to high tech. Due to customer demand for repeat just-in-time delivery of small batch orders, the company hoped to streamline its production operation with equipment that would give it the exibility to manage any project, no matter what the part quantity or tolerance. It also hoped to achieve four objectives: • Reduce setups on vertical machines and eliminate the operator adjustment of osets for reduced cycle times • Improve protability through operational e ciencies • Obtain the ability to handle contoured parts and three-dimensional part designs • Use a wider range of tools to obtain speed, r

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