Off-line programming - Aerospace manufacturer combats global competition with investment

摘要

In recent years, the market for high-quality manufactured metal parts has become increasingly competitive, and manufacturers and assemblers alike are placing more and more work out to low-labour-cost countries, in response to the cost and time pressures placed on them by their customers. However, the success of Frome-based Thomson Machine & Tool Co shows that UK-based specialist manufacturing companies can still beat the best that the rest of the world has to offer.