Manufacturing Today Issue - 236 May 2025 | Page 135

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we’ ve implemented the best possible strategy and invested in the right places to support this growth moving forward.
“ We’ ve invested in new capacity, including large 5 axis machining, to enhance our capabilities and ensure we remain versatile. The machines enable us to deliver complex projects, as they not only operate on different axes, but machine much faster.
“ We’ re also investing in our employees as we grow,” Ashok adds.“ We embrace on-thejob training and encourage our longer-term staff to spend time training younger members
Our pipeline generally looks good for the remainder of 2025, and we have ambitious growth plans to double in terms of volume over the next five years of the team to pass on their knowledge and expertise. We’ ve also recently invested in new computer-aided manufacturing software, hyperMILL, which will further enhance and streamline our employees’ day-to-day tasks.” Turning to collaboration, Ashok explains the company’ s approach to meeting specific customer requirements, even in the most demanding situations.“ We approach problem solving as project-by-project collaboration with our customers and OEMs,” he states.“ Take a company like Airbus, for instance, where we’ ve provided several wind tunnel models over the last 30 years or so. When a long-term client like this comes up with an optimistic or futuristic design, we will review it and suggest tweaks that would enhance the manufacturability of a concept until we get a finished product both parties are happy with.
“ We’ re currently working with a company in the defense industry to produce casing for a motor that goes underwater. This has very different requirements that we had to
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