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Machine Shops
First Research, April 2012, Pages: 10
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Executive Summary
Brief Excerpt from Industry Overview Chapter:
The US machine shops industry includes about 20,000 companies with combined annual revenue of about $30 billion. No major companies dominate the industry, which is highly fragmented: the 50 largest companies generate about 10 percent of revenue.
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
Demand depends on US manufacturing activity. The profitability of individual companies is linked to engineering expertise and operating efficiency. Larger shops have the ability to invest in advanced production machinery. Smaller shops can compete effectively by serving specialized customers, or by providing engineering services. Despite continuing automation, the industry is labor-intensive: average annual revenue per worker is about $160,000.
PRODUCTS, OPERATIONS & TECHNOLOGY
Machine shops are intermediaries in products production. They work on a job basis: generally, they receive unfinished parts or raw materials from a manufacturer, perform various operations, and return the parts to the manufacturer for further processing. They own and operate special machine tools that can perform a variety of operations, including drilling; boring (enlarging an existing hole); tapping (cutting threads inside a drilled hole); threading (cutting threads on a bolt); cutting; milling (removing material from a surface); and grinding (usually a finishing operation). These operations involve material removal, frequently with great precision. The bulk of machine shop work is performed on metal, but plastics and composite materials are also machined.
The machines that perform these operations are usually expensive and often computer-controlled. Machine tools vary by the type of operation they perform, the size of a piece...
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