Big on EDM.

Adron Tool Corp. considers itself the largest EDM store in America. Not just because of its 48 wire EDM machines or the amount of production work it interrogates out, but because of the workpiece sizes it handles. At the Menomonee Falls, Wis., jobshop 10000-lb aerospace parts are commonplace, as is burning thicknesses up to 265 in.

The store is equipped with a pair 3-ton-capacity overhead cranes and each so often must rely upon the help of outside riggers to load or unload parts. While maneuvering parts around may be tough, EDMing them isn't. That's because Adron has unfolded its ...