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ll employees are included in
annual planning meetings; they have
monthly shipping goals, and they dis-
cuss numbers daily.
Teton Machining is also investing in
technology and recently bought their
first cobot, which they named “Norm”
after their founder. Franklin shared, “We
are doing our best; we will be grow-
ing employee and revenue numbers.
Revenue will grow through increased
use of technology. We brought on our
first cobot a few months ago; we buy
machines with enhanced capability —
like Swiss machines with sub-spindles
and live tooling.”
He said that live tooling is milling and
drilling where the tool spins and the
product remains stationary. “This allows
us to do complex parts in one operation,
on one machine,” said Franklin. He said
this type of technology reduces human
error.
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