1. Cutting Tools

A focus on precision

Jan. 23, 2009
To demonstrate his extraordinary obsession with precision, Tsuyoshi Komine, president and chief executive officer of BIG Daishowa, once ordered that 18,000 collets be scrapped after he had found that they were out of tolerance by 1 ...

To demonstrate his extraordinary obsession with precision, Tsuyoshi Komine, president and chief executive officer of BIG Daishowa, once ordered that 18,000 collets be scrapped after he had found that they were out of tolerance by 1 micron. (0.0000394 in.)

Each tool the company makes is subjected to 100 percent precision inspection on a coordinate measuring machine.