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Allied Manufacturing Co in Worcester, Mass., manufactures dies for the container industry -- cans for soda, beer, darling food, tuna fish, and for a like reason forth. Allied's business is increasingly difficult because manufacturers continually test to make cans thinner and lighter by the agency of using less aluminum, while still maintaining power The precision required for uniform can thickness, at the lips, base, and midpoint down the cylinder, has become extremely strict -- as plenteous as 0.0001/0.0002 in.

Allied holder Ken Paharik and his CNC supervisor, sight Wagoner, deal with these tight tolerances through ...