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In an ever increasingly more competitive market, the automotive industry is looking for ways to produce cost-effectively and still secure high quality. The manufacturing floor needs to scrutinize processes that can live up to stringent demands. Recently developed, advanced tooling technologies have set new marks in finish-machining automotive parts and components. They yield productivity and dimensional accuracy through economic processes. The response on part of the car manufacturer to today's adamant customer demands is clear:

Producing good parts right at the outset, upon inception of a new manufacturing system and then continuously producing error-free parts, is a formidable challenge. It can only be met if manufacturing realizes that perpetual attention has to be paid to the most minor machining details and if unconventional management techniques and engineering principles are adopted. Systematic applications of advanced machining systems and true knowledge of statistical process control and concurrent engineering are at the core of first part, good part, zero-defect machining.

In a shrinking world, there is the chance to reap the benefits of globalized strategies. Going around the world to purchase, design, build and market products internationally and jointly, offers immense possibilities for carmakers and suppliers. The two concepts of mass production with cost/price orientation and customized production with service orientation have merged to mass-customizing, affecting automakers and their suppliers worldwide alike.

The aerospace industry is faced with ever more demands on quality, variety and complexity of their products. The spectrum of part materials certainly encompasses a much wider range than any industrial manufacturing while the cost of parts and components by design, function and machining are highest, too. Hence aerospace manufacturing's perpetual quest for new, advanced machining processes that: yield predictable, consistent results. lower the machining cost per part. decrease main machining times. increase flexibility and adaptability. improve produced quality. minimize operations. The three advanced processes that can accommodate these demands best are one-pass finish-machining, (near) dry-machining and high-speed machining. ONE-PASS FINISH-MACHINING - The key is to finish-machine given part castings with one operation at high precision, instead of step by step machining. The one-pass approach is to include even complicated part configurations and contours.

When consumers began to demand more product reliability and product choices and producers searched for ways to satisfy them, companies had to reinvent manufacturing techniques and objectives. To accommodate “the needs and wants of the customer” and “doing it right the first time,” has quality and cost considerations right at the center of it all. Obviously, the manufacturer capable of producing a quality product productively and economically, has the edge in a competitive marketplace. It is a misconception to assume, that quality and cost are diverging criteria. In fact, there are numerous proven tools, systems and processes, if applied properly and systematically, that lower manufacturing costs by simultaneously increasing product quality. Individually, they are good - together they are formidable. The path to Low Cost - High Quality leads to: PROCESS-ORIENTED MANUFACTURING - A given process determines performance and precision.