When the end of the Cold War threatened sales in the aerospace industry, PCC Airfoils (Mentor, OH), a manufacturer of turbine blades used in jet engines, was forced to broaden its markets to survive."Three years ago, this plant was producing aircraft engine parts, but PCC took a new product direction, prompted by changes in the aerospace industry;" said Mark Kostur, a computer applications engineer in PCC's quality inspection department The company foresaw softness in the demand for aerospace turbine blades and conducted some studies on the land-based turbine market. "We made the decision to convert our Mentor plant over to the production of larger, land-based power supply castings," said Kostur.
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