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GL Precision Tube Inc.
Recent Content on The Fabricator for GL Precision Tube Inc.
Supply chain collaborates on bending project
- By Eric Lundin
- Mar 1, 2010
- Shop Management
- Article
Faced with a daunting bending contract and a short timeframe, Rick Williams of Rockford Process Control (RPC) sought cooperation from a tubing supplier, bending machine manufacturer, and a tooling supplier at the beginning of the project. The information exchange enabled RPC and its supply chain partners to develop a process, deliver a bender, and engineer and manufacture tooling without the benefit of tubing samples.
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