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Article: Blue chip investment: through the peaks and valleys of business, shop owners found a program to keep the company from folding.(SPOTLIGHT: CAD/CAM)
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- Modern Applications News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Rick Denny and his step-son, Mike Anderson, have gone through some ups and downs since starting Blue Chip Engineering, Inc., Ramsey, MN, in 1994. The majority of Blue Chip's business is doing overflow work for other shops, making their problem parts; work which they have found to be unpredictable and unstable. But, their bumpy road ultimately led them to GibbsCAM from Gibbs and Associates, Moorpark, CA, and from there, continued success.
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From their meager beginnings in a rented space just four feet wider than their vertical machining center, within a year, Denny and Andersen built their own rotary axis and gained some flexibility. ...