The indicators to diversify your customer base can present themselves in many ways to a company. For Senior Aerospace AMT, a leading manufacturer of commercial and aerospace parts, it started with one major indicator. A single customer of the company – albeit, one of the largest aerospace companies in the world – made up approximately 90 percent of AMT’s business. The company spun this sign into an opportunity to fine-tune its machining operations.

MOGAS is a leading manufacturer of severe service ball valves for extreme industrial applications – industries such as nuclear, petrochemical and mining rely on the company for their four decades of field and manufacturing experience with harsh plant conditions. As a result, companies can be confident that their MOGAS designs withstand high process integrity, uptime reliability and personnel safety measures.

When oil or gas basins experience inconsistent production or liquid loading in the wellbore, they can turn to Flowco Production Solutions for artificial lifts. The Houston, TX-based company exists to safely maximize the lifespan and efficiency of oil and gas wells with their high performance artificial lift products, and have been doing so since 2014. But Flowco had identified a source of waste – and it was happening on their own shop floor.

Manes Machine produces complex aerospace related industry parts on 5-Axis machines that
range from 1”-160” work envelopes. Manes Machine was struggling to meet customer demand
from the likes of Collins Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Goodrich, and many others. Manes
Machine was not receiving clear data as to whether their Mazak, Makino, and Okuma
machines were running or not running.

Future Foam began looking into a machine monitoring solution after their legacy non-CNC machines presented production challenges including limited connectivity options, unconventional cycling and downtime phases, continuous flow processes, and a need for an initiative-taking outlook regarding OEE. Future Foam has twenty-two locations across the country and a need for remote factory monitoring to drive real-time KPIs was an omnipresent one.

Tech Manufacturing is a 40 thousand square foot facility in Wright City, Missouri that specializes in low volume high mix parts. This includes a range of platforms including the F-15 and includes some parts that take over 100 man hours to machine. Tech Manufacturing is a twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week operation utilizing limited automation. Their target is to be running sixty five percent or more of the time In Cycle.