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Most job shops consider grinding to be a secondary op for milling, turning or other work, something to be subbed out to a nearby grinder. Certainly for most shops grinding is not the primary machining process.
Okay, suppose you’re the number two person on a new management team assigned to get control of a very successful, 38-year-old screw machine job shop with 94 employees producing millions of parts a year.