For more than 50 years, Bobcat Company has been a world leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of compact equipment, including skid-steer loaders and, compact excavators. Bobcat’s equipment is used in many industries including agriculture, construction, excavating, and andscaping, and equipment rental. In addition to having the most extensive compact equipment distribution network in the world, the company is North Dakota’s largest manufacturer…
The Challenge: Rose set out to find a “sweet spot” that would give both faster laser processing and better cut quality. The stakes were high. Improving production speeds an average of 15% would be the equivalent of “saving” an additional laser, each of which cost nearly $1 million to install. Increasing output from the seven existing lasers also would decrease the amount of outsourced “beam hours”—and with the plant outsourcing a healthy portion of their laser work, bringing even some of that work back in-house would yield substantial savings…
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