L'histoire de la réussite de Jacob Grey

Une jeune entreprise de type « Job Shop » fait son entrée dans l’aérospatiale de premier plan

When the start-up job shop Jacob Grey opened its doors in Columbia, SC in 2012, the owner, Jake Brackett, had already set his sights on breaking into the aerospace market as a first tier supplier. While his company was cutting its teeth making tooling for a wide spectrum of companies in South Carolina, Brackett was working under the guidance of his Mastercam reseller to develop robust manufacturing processes capable of a much higher level of manufacturing complexity within his CAM software.

En bref

Produit utilisé : Fraisage, Tournage, Multiaxes, Dynamique
Industrie : Aérospatiale

Détails du projet

Le défi : Développer des procédures et une éthique de travail qui attirent l’attention des OEM de l’aérospatiale.
The Solution: Mill, Lathe, Multiaxis, Dynamic Motion, Moldplus, Verisurf
Avantages :
- Facile à apprendre et à utiliser.
- Collaboration et support réactifs de la part du revendeur le plus proche.
- Technologie Dynamic Motion pour un enlèvement de matière rapide tout en réduisant les contraintes sur les outils de coupe et les pièces.
- Des modules additionnels complémentaires intégrés répondent aux exigences techniques spécifiques du marché.

This preparation met its first major aerospace opportunity later in 2012, when Brackett met with a representative of a very large aircraft OEM and was given the opportunity to manufacture a number of small parts. That went so well that the local contact thought of Jacob Grey when an emergency arose that would cause the OEM to shut down a production operation unless a critical part was delivered over the weekend. The Jacob Grey team worked 48 hours straight to model the part in SolidWorks, analyze, create a program and work holding solution and transition directly into setup and manufacturing. This was all done in just 12 hours.

Two weeks later Brackett got a call from one of the OEM’s supplier analysts. They were impressed by his company’s crunch time performance. The OEM was willing to give Jacob Grey more business if it could meet stringent aerospace MBD (Model Based Definition) requirements. This took about six months and Jacob Grey was set up as a secondary EO (emergent offloading) supplier and given a three-year contract. “We were off and running,” Brackett said.

“Once you get inside the door, and you do a good job, OEMs will love you to death,” Brackett said. Jacob Grey’s work volume began to increase steadily. So did the size, complexity and tolerances of what was being asked for. “Mastercam could do it, no problem,” said Brackett, “but the machines were limited.” As a result, Brackett sold the shop’s basic CNC mill and lathe and began acquiring a series of high-end CNC systems including 3D and 4-axis mills, high speed mills, a 5-axis machining center, and a pallet loading horizontal machining center. Four years into its start-up phase, Jacob Grey was already knocking down walls and expanding into the next building.

En l’espace de cinq ans, l’entreprise est passée de trois à dix employés et la production a été multipliée par plus de dix. Jusqu’à présent, deux programmeurs Mastercam ont réussi à faire face à un flux de travail en constante augmentation.

DEVIS CLIENT

» Jacob Grey a une aversion pour le rebut et Mastercam® est l’épine dorsale de nos stratégies de fabrication sans rebut. Notre attitude est que nous n’en voulons pas. Nous vérifions 100 % de nos pièces. Même s’il s’agit de 200 pièces, nous vérifions chacune d’entre elles entièrement. Avec un tel état d’esprit, lorsqu’un client nous fait part d’un problème, nous sommes en mesure de lui répondre : « Non, vous devez revérifier ». Nos documents sont corrects. Notre processus est correct. Toutes nos procédures opérationnelles standard sont correctes. Cela nous place au-dessus de certains autres ateliers en termes de performances ».
Jake Brackett, propriétaire, Jacob Grey, Inc.