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CMTC serves an extremely diverse and dynamic California manufacturing community. Our Customer Stories focus on our clients and the vital manufacturing functions they provide.
If you've ever been to a National Coffee Chain and snuck yourself one of those delicious Peanut Butter Mini Cupcakes, then your taste buds are quite familiar with Ne-Mo's Bakery.
Chromatic Inc., Lithographers, a printing company, is writing an exciting new chapter for their business. Faced with dramatic shifts in their industry, the 30-year-old company took stock of their business and devised a plan that is helping them thrive in their rapidly changing corner of the marketplace.
Although Accurate Dial has always maintained strong relationships with their clients, a significant challenge arose that threatened their ability to serve their customers. Erin Dyer, Quality Control Manager for Accurate Dial, dates the beginning of this challenge back to 2002. “An organization had called us up and asked us to obtain ISO9001/AS9100 certification,” she recounts. ISO9001/AS9100 is a quality management standard for the aerospace industry.
When it comes to quality, Steve Dively says his company aims extremely high. The Vice President of Dicronite® Southwest keeps a photograph of the Mars Explorer Rover in his Covina, California office to remind him that the manufacturing marvel was built using Dicronite® Southwest’s Dry Lubricant coating process.
Like many other manufacturers in the Golden State, Dramm and Echter Inc. was presented with a major challenge: the economic downfall. The roadblocks appeared extremely difficult to overcome - a volatile market together with a staggering local economy and rising energy costs all led to struggles with profitability.
D’Addario’s signature reeds are made from imported cane grown and harvested in its plantations in Argentina and France. The cane is trimmed, broken down into small pieces, and then the “splits” or sections are sent to Sun Valley, CA. There they are milled using equipment that measures each minute detail of a reed's cut.
To meet the most stringent manufacturing requirements in the industry, Henry “Hank” Brown knew that the manuals and procedures in his electroplating facility had to be more automated. The president of Electronic Precision Specialties also knew that a certification from the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program equaled happy customers.
Some workplaces are teeming with office conflicts that can damage morale and thwart productivity. But conflict resolution training isn’t really necessary at Omega Precision®, an award-winning high-precision machine shop that makes parts for everything from aircraft to space planes. The Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operations Officer are brothers. A bulk of the staff is related by blood or marriage. Ninetyyear-old Joe Venegas, who founded the familyowned company in 1965, often stops into the Santa Fe Springs, CA plant for lunch.
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