Mike Lynch
Founder and President, CNC Concepts Inc.
Many companies have only one kind of CNC machine tool, and they specialize in the processes that this type of machine can perform. For example, the company might specialize in turning processes performed by sliding-headstock CNC lathes. They also tend to specialize in running small lots—giving them much in common with prototype-producing companies. For these reasons, workpiece-producing companies need to be very good at the processes in which they specialize. This narrow focus is often the very factor that enables them to outperform product-producing companies and make a profit producing workpieces those companies farm out.