Delcam’s FeatureCAM gives H&R Precision success from the start
Programming its machines with Delcam’s FeatureCAM feature-based CAM system has helped H&R Precision to achieve continued expansion over its four-year life, despite opening just before the recession.
- (1888PressRelease) March 16, 2011 - Few other American machine shops that started up in 2006 have seen 50% continued year-on-year growth.
H&R Precision owners Hector (Stanley) Renderos and Ron McReynolds founded their business after Moog Inc., the global designer, manufacturer and integrator of precision motion control products and systems, decided to close its in-house machine shop in Salt Lake City. The two partners asked if they could purchase the assets from Moog and open a business that would support the company’s machining requirements.
"The company said ‘yes’, and we opened for business as H&R Precision,” remembered Mr. McReynolds. Success wasn’t guaranteed, however. While Moog knew of the partners’ capabilities as employees from their combined fifty years of service, the company needed to see how the two operated as a business entity before committing to a significant volume of work.
"It evidently went well,” Mr. McReynolds said, "because we continue to expand the business we do with Moog exponentially. Now, H&R not only does work for the Salt Lake City facility but also for Moog’s California and New York operations. We have recently taken on a substantial amount of R&D and tooling work through the Moog model shop.”
Business couldn’t be better for the young manufacturing entity. The company has nearly doubled the size of its facility, with more than 10,000 square feet of capacity, and it runs three shifts. H&R now employs seventeen staff; almost all are former Moog employees.
"One of the key contributors to our success is FeatureCAM,” Mr. McReynolds claimed. "Moog did an extensive software evaluation on competitive CAM solutions while I was employed there and the company settled on FeatureCAM. Everyone involved in the purchasing decision felt that FeatureCAM was superior to other machine shop software solutions for two main reasons: ease of use and cost.”
Moog then trained its machine operators to program with FeatureCAM. Mr. McReynolds stated that "the FeatureCAM software is so user-friendly; it was easy for the machinists to pick it up.”
When the partners decided to open their own business, there was no question that they would use anything other than FeatureCAM. "We were comfortable with the software and we knew it was a superior package,” Mr. McReynolds said. What surprised the start-up entity was how flexible FeatureCAM was with helping them to get started. "We just didn’t expect that Delcam would really work with us to get the software we needed.”
"The service and support we get from Blaine Duke, our FeatureCAM sales engineer, is outstanding,” Mr. McReynolds added. "He knows his product line inside and out, he spends time teaching us and he is so patient. Blaine and the rest of the FeatureCAM team are just great to work with.”
Mr. McReynolds now programs hundreds of parts per week using FeatureCAM. "The software allows us to make amazing parts,” he claimed. "FeatureCAM takes the average machinist and makes him or her into a superior machinist and programmer. For example, I am not a trained lathe person but, with FeatureCAM, I am now able to do NC lathe work.”
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