RTD Manufacturing
Case Study Summary
Company name: RTD Manufacturing, Inc.
Business: Job shop with a wide array of capabilities
Website: www.rtdtool.com
Benefits achieved:
- Machining templates help apply best practices and cut programming time
- Ability to machine complex surfaces with the software’s 3-axis roughing and finishing cycles
RTD Manufacturing Inc., uses SURFCAM Traditional to fulfill a wide range of customer needs
“We were either going to have to do something different or shut our doors, so we started making face masks and shields, and partnered with other companies to make face shields, as well,”
- Mike Doetsch, Mechanical Engineer
Flexibility is key in manufacturing, but even more so when an inability to pivot production would otherwise mean shutting your doors. As the coronavirus pandemic ground manufacturing operations across the U.S. to a screeching halt in early 2020, RTD Manufacturing of Jackson, Michigan, kept its doors open by harnessing its ability to adapt.