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Mike Reimbold and Ricky Lindenburg spot checking a part that is running on their Doosan Mill.
programming and company management, Bob engineers, Ricky is shop foreman, brother Tommy Reimbold is head of QC, sales and customer service, mom, Donna Reimbold is office manager. “We really are a family run business,” tells Mike. “My cousin Adam Helbert is our Lead lathe man and even my daughter has come in to debur parts during her summer breaks.” Family works well for AIP. Each member has different strengths but a common goal. “Like everyone else in the industry, finding skilled and reliable workers is a challenge,” chuckles Mike. “We run two shifts right now with 20 people and 1⁄4 of us are related. So worst case we could field a shift by ourselves if we had to. But really, finding people that fit is
difficult, so we look for people that want to work and train in house. We are also lucky that there is a great local resource just down the road, Fullerton Junior College.”
Mike learned to run CNC machines right out of high school while working for his dad and grandfather. “We were all manual machines at Anaheim Automation,” tells Mike. “Then one day they got a Bridgeport mill with a boss 9 control. It was entry level, but full 3 axis, and you had to change tools by hand. They sent three guys from the shop to learn how to use it. They came back and couldn’t make a damn thing on it. I was just a kid, 18 years old maybe. A salesman at Functional Robotics Dennis Yosanivich said ‘I’m sending you to training.’
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