Metalworking Machinery - May, 1999

Life And Times Of A Family Shop

“In 1959 the founder of the company, John Gibbons, had an opportunity to three Traub automatic Screw Machines.  John and his wife Blanch, had a savings nest egg of $4,018.  The three machines cost $4,000 and Blance told John to go for it.  The has three machines and a bank roll of $18 when they went into business.”

“Jerry Gibbons recalls many times bailing  a customer out of a jam after receiving a last minute request on a Friday evening to have parts ready Monday Morning.  This meant Jerry worked all weekend to meet the delivery deadline but it’s something the customer would never forget.”

“Gibbons feels there’s still plenty of room for a good company with good people who can perform for the customer.”

Market Diversification Success Story

J.C. Gibbons (J.C.), in Livonia, Michigan, manufactures precision screw machine and CNC products. The technical knowledge of its skilled staff has ensured the highest quality product since 1959. J.C. Gibbons can take a prototype job and move it into low or high volume production without ever leaving its facility. A robust ISO9001:2000 program is the driving force behind J.C. Gibbons’s quality system and provides assurance that each job is made in a reliable, consistent manner.

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Case Study: J.C.Gibbons Manufacturing Inc. Supplier Cracks the Code to Find New Business

"Thanks to unorthodox use in industry classification codes and a major overhaul of marketing tools and techniques, Livonia's J.C Gibbons Manufacturing Inc. is courting new customers..."

- Crains Detroit Business May 17-23, 2010

J.C Gibbons: Medical Pathways

Part manufacturers long steeped in supplying macro-scale industries such as automotive are finding their way into the medical micro device market—either through fabricating micro-components or machining micro features on parts—and they report that the challenge is not nearly as daunting as some might believe.

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NEUROTECH CO. ,The New Robotics Blog

A while back while browsing on YouTube I came across a channel on robots, and so I subscribed and sent the person a friend request. A couple days later we exchanged a few messages about robotics, my company, and partnering. So we made a deal, Keith (the person who owns the channel) offered to spread word about my site, join my robot community website (http://www.clubrobot.wall.fm/), create a wikipedia page, and much more. I agreed with three simple words, "welcome to SimpleBotics." This week Keith created a company called NEUROTECH CO. and a blog to go with it. I have checked out the blog and I say its off to a great start. If you would like to see his blog just copy and paste this in the address bar, http://neurotechbotics.blogspot.com/. If you have any comments on the blog then feel free to comment below!

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Robo-Roundup #7

This Robo-Roundup features cool new robots that can juggle to ones that have human qualities. I hope you enjoy it!

1. One of the biggest robotics questions of all: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/why-we-should-build-humanlike-robots

2. This robot has human like emotions: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/reeti-wants-to-be-your-htpc-for-some-reason

3. A new robot that will appear in the classrooms: http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=27295

4. The Da Vinci robotics surgical system folds a paper airplane: http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/01/surgical-robot-builds-tiny-paper-airplane-video/

5. The well known iRobot "packbot 510" is helping in Japan: http://tokyotek.com/robots-recruited-to-help-battle-radiation-problem/

So I hope you have enjoyed this weeks roundup and we hope you read next weeks too!