Switchgear lineups are engineered-to-order products with a lot of variation among jobs, including fabricated sheet metal parts. Enabling the new JST Power Equipment switchgear-manufacturing plant to excel at taking on low-volume production: an automated punch-shear combination machine. Traditionally a manufacturer of transformers, JST Power Equipment has spent the last several months charging up a new manufacturing location in Lake Mary, FL, to produce a new product line: air-insulated switchgear. The firm, originally located in New Jersey and also operating transformer and switchgear-production facilities in Mexico and China, sought to make the Florida plant as vertically integrated as possible. That project landed squarely in the hands of Mark Smith, vice president of operations.
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