This video provides a brief overview of W.A. Pfeiffer’s digital manufacturing system. W.A. Pfeiffer is in many ways a typical job shop. It makes precision components for a wide variety of applications ...

A job shop is a type of manufacturing process in which small batches of a variety of custom products are made. In the job shop process flow, most of the products produced require a unique set-up and ...

Whether in a production job shop or other high mix manufacturer, many machine shop managers think their automation options are limited due to all the variability of their parts that are run in ...

Most job shops are defined by selling and producing in a make-to-order environment. Production orders are executed only in response to a specific customer order for a discrete quantity and due date.

Manufacturing systems are often divided according to how many products that businesses produce, and how many of those products are produced at the same time. Complex products, in general, require much ...