A CMM was added to assist with the quality documentation that continues to define the company. Horizontal and vertical machining centers joined shop capabilities. The one Mori Seiki turning center turned into five. We’ve been going gangbusters since then.” Company Innovation Builds Successīusiness and the shop expanded and the economy edged up. I went to Alberta, connected with a company that had too much machining work, and we became their subcontractor. Today one of the companies uses our documentation template as a guide for its other suppliers.”Ī tenacious dedication to success and willingness to change led to the first company transformation in 2003. They decided that had value and their work carried us when oil tanked and 9/11 happened. Our documents verifying the quality of their parts provided history to prove what we did for them day by day. But we developed a quality reporting template for them anyway and told them that someday they would want that kind of documentation. In the oil field in the early 2000s, they didn’t know or care what ISO was. “Even though we were tiny-only one machine-we set ourselves apart. Quality, and its documentation, differentiated the company from other oilfield suppliers. It was me and my sons working on oilfield equipment and prototype injection molds for preform tools for plastic packaging.” Clients on the mold side of the business included companies that package liquids like competing soda and water bottlers and manufacturers of indestructible plastic tableware. “We moved back home to Canada and I started my own business in 1997. “I had been working in development at a facility in Massachusetts for five years when they closed their doors,” Fiebig said. A job loss due to the shuttering of a plastic injection mold manufacturer provided the impetus for starting his own company. That doesn’t mean he’s a stranger to challenges before or after becoming a business owner. The first is quality the second is innovation. Marv Fiebig, president of PTooling in Amherstburg, Ont., has a system for riding out cycles that toss and turn-and often defeat-small manufacturers. He is pictured holding an additive manufactured turbine housing in front of the DMG Mori Lasertec 65 3D. Marv Fiebig, president of PTooling in Amherstburg, Ont., expanded his shop’s offerings with the combined capabilities of additive manufacturing and 5-axis machining.
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