Here's a lesson in how sheetmetal fabricators can increase profitability by reducing operating expenses and inventory, and increase throughput, with the flexibility to get what you want, where you want it, when it needs to be there. A sheetmetal-fabricator's world is squeezed more today than ever before. Not only is local competition fighting for the same piece of pie, but the global marketplace has created competition internationally. The labor pool for skilled craftsmen is shrinking. And, customer demands for cost reductions are compounded by a shop's internal demands to reduce costs. Meanwhile, their OEM customers, fighting the same economic battles, have migrated to lean-manufacturing methods and reduced the size of shipments. Add a recession into the mix and you have the makings of a major challenge to profitability.
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