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Krosnow Metal Works will machine metal parts for large manufacturing customers. The raw material for most of these parts will also be provided by these customers.
Competitive Comparison
As Poland moves to a modern market-based economy, its manufacturers will generate an enormous demand for specialized machined metal parts from subcontracting job shops. Existing metal-working job shops in Poland use old style machine tools that are very labor intensive and unreliable, in their product quality. Consequently, their products are low quality and high cost.
Krosnow Metal Works, equipped with new computer controlled machine tools, will be able to produce high volume, high quality and low cost machined metal parts. Poland's existing job shops cannot match our technological advances.
Sourcing
Krosnow Metal Works machines metal parts that in most cases have been supplied by their customer. Our machining process adds value to the part. As a consequence, this production has real no raw material cost but a material cost of 10% of sales is assumed to cover other circumstances.
Technology
Metal-working has been a part of the manufacturing process for years. Machine tools such as lathes and milling machines were developed in the 1930s and 1940s to improve quality and productivity of the metal-working process.
In the 1970s computers were connected to machine tools to further streamline the machining processes. These machines are termed CNC for Computer Numerical Control.
While CNC machines have been vastly deployed in the West, a poor economy and limited investment capital have kept this technology out of Poland.
Future Products
As product demand progresses, Krosnow Metal Works will diversify its manufacturing processes and equipment to match its customer/partners needs. In addition, its success in training its machinists in the new computer controlled equipment will be used to sell training services to other companies within Poland.
Strategy and Implementation Summary
