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21 November 2003

Mind-boggling multiplicity

“I thought manufacturing a collet was simple until I started making them!” exclaims Peter Simms, general manager and director for workholding systems company Pratt Burnerd. It is an honest appreciation of the shear “mind-boggling multiplicity of product”– a succinct description of the challenge to make over 55 000 variations of collet as a result of the decision to join the workholding forces of Crawford Collets and Pratt Burnerd on one site

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Andrew Allcock


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