Outsourcing. Offshoring. Layoffs. Plant closings. Newspapers and business magazines are filled with stories on the decline of U.S. industry. Nowhere is this trend more acute than in the Detroit area, with its heavy reliance on the Big Three automobile manufacturers. It's not all gloom and doom. Quasar Industries~R, a prototyping shop and low-volume manufacturer in Rochester Hills, a Detroit suburb, is growing despite the difficult manufacturing environment. The company recently added 10,000 square feet of manufacturing space. Diversified to serve a variety of industries, Quasar provides stamping; laser cutting and welding; robotic welding; tube forming; electrical discharge machining (EDM); CNC machining; and inspection and assembly. The company designs and builds all of its own tooling, efforts that are supported by 18 CAD/CAM workstations. The equipment is important, but the keys to Quasar's success are its employees' collective expertise and its business culture.
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