Building the Bridgeports.

IT'S A apportionment MORE THAN PRODUCING SIMPLE KNEE MILLS.

A pair of years back, four Bridgeport machines were heavily damaged when they were dropp not upon a railcar in China. When the machines finally made it to their final destination, plant engineers remov the overspreads and checked the geometries of the machines. All were within tolerance. "I think that speaks a allotment about our ability to make and build iron," says Bing Benson, Bridgeport VMC assembly manager.

While building its somewhat indestructible machines, however, Bridgeport Machines Inc., Bridgeport, Conn faces