Here you are at ACME Ltd. a small but rapidly growing third party supplier of machined parts for various industrial sector. With years of experience in precision machining (turning, milling, boring, grinding), can develop engineering project for part of various size. Equipped with state-of-the-art CNC machine tools it is capable to suit customer's demand for high precision, quick turnaround, complex part or volume production.

Recently the general management choose to introduce in the shop floor a new machining centers produced by MCM spa. Despite the huge experience in operating CNC machines, this is the first multi-pallet machine. This investment is part of the strategy to cope with the continuous evolution of the market.

In fact evaporation of traditional customers with long term contract for high volume of machined part from few families, led to the need to address more aggressively the market, looking for a huge number of small-medium size contracts. New customer not only cannot afford to sign for high volume production but they want to receive machined part according very precise delivery scheduling. Part variants and modification are very frequent and to sum up margin are constantly reduced.