The world of investment casting is this: While we're standing here, something somewhere is going wrong," explains a Precision Castparts Corp's sales manager touring one of the company's plants in Portland, Ore. Nearby, workers carefully pour molten metal into delicate sand molds. "It's that complex. It's that intricate." Precision is in many ways just a humble partsmaker, under relentless pressure to reduce costs.
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