CASE STUDY Saint-Gobain INDUSTRY APPLICATION LOCATION CUSTOMER SINCE Manufacturing T ooling & Fixtures Massachusetts, USA 2017The Challenge Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures, and distributes materials and solutions for a wide range of industries. Saint-Gobain Research North America, located in Massachusetts, supports process and product development efforts for over 100 regional plants, and supports the optimization of plant operations by implementing new technology. The company often needs to react to customer requests without affecting their workflow. A simple request by a customer to change the shape of a weaving bobbin line resulted in one plant needing to fabricate 400 spindle adapters to hold the new bobbins in place. The team initially planned to machine the spindle adapters

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