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APM’s first foray into Swiss turning came within the last year. They purchased from Expand Machinery a Ganesh Cyclone 32 NCY and liked it so much they added a Ganesh Genturn-32CS which has simultaneous main & sub-spindle machining, dual C axis and a Y axis.
already set on shutting down the in-house manufacturing and selling off the CNC machines. If I wanted to buy the machines, I could have the work too. I was like what? So, I’m out of a job or I buy a shop’s worth of CNC machines. Everyone in the area wanted the work, but no one wanted the machines. We got some help from our dad and figured out extra funding. The stars just aligned, but six months into being first-time business owners we now had something like 10 machines, 20 employees, a bigger building and a ton of B & M parts. We were full gas, 100% B & M, two shifts and seven days a week. What could go wrong? Machining is the hard part, running a business is easy right? It went well for years, and then we noticed that the PO’s were getting lower and lower, but our nut still was the same every month. Let’s just sum it up as we
learned some lessons and built back smarter and better.” “We spent a decade learning what not to do as a business,” adds Erik. “We always took great care of our customers, and the quality of work never faltered, but honestly we needed to be better businesspeople.”
After some struggles, a family investor came along that looked to solve their problems. He did solve a few but created even more. After a long-drawn-out miserable partnership, the company dissolved. Armed now with the experience they once lacked, Erik and Ed reformed the original idea into today’s Applied Precision Manufacturing Inc., owned once again by only the brothers Sicairos. “When all was settled, we needed to rebuild and this is where Harvinder Singh, of Expand Machinery really helped us out,” tells Erik. “After the dust
APM have a variety of machining centers that vary in size & capabilities. With seven employees and ten CNC machining centers they still have room to grow in their 6,500 sq.ft. manufacturing center in South El Monte, California.
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