Innovative Controls' efforts to become vertically integrated with its manufacturing capabilities started with digital silk screening, but creating its own machine shop - which includes a CNC Swiss-type lathe - soon followed. After working in industrial sales for a number of years, Mike Michna, Innovative Controls' president, sought other avenues to create a company offering a manufacturing niche. In the late 80s, he recognized that the pump panels on fire trucks were not user friendly in terms of function or layout for firefighters to efficiently control and operate at a stressful scene of a fire.
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