“The success of the supply chain requires the participation of every function within the organization,” Lisa Anderson, president LMA Consulting Group Inc.
In front of the loading station of the shop’s Fastems FPC flexible pallet container, Angela Olsen and Mach Machine President Dan Olsen check the dimensions of lens mount components.
In 2004, Dan Olsen co-founded the e-commerce site BoatZincs.com to distribute a selection of specialized marine products including “zincs,” the anti-corrosion anodes attached to boat hulls) to recreational and commercial boaters. To meet particular customer needs, BoatZincs added basic manufacturing capabilities and later began to offer machining services to businesses outside the marine industry. Today, with heavy emphasis on creative process development and automation, including advanced Okuma horizontal machining centers (HMCs) linked with an intelligent Fastems flexible manufacturing system, BoatZincs’ offshoot manufacturing business, Mach Machine, handles prototype and production runs of precision parts for customers in the high-tech, medical, aerospace and military industries, among ot