We started upgrading with CNC equipment, and gave it the current name.” A-Line was officially established. “By some miracle, I landed some F18 military jet engine work. Muru convinced his dad to buy a digital readout for an ELO mill but that was it. When his father retired in the mid 1980s, the shop was outdated and still had all manual milling and lathe machines. After that, he pursued formal training in tool and die making, metallurgy, and welding (as well as doing a stint on Canada’s National and America’s Cup sailing team). After high school, he went to the University of Western Ontario and earned a degree in finance in 1981. Muru started working part time in the shop young, about 14 years-old. The staff included his mom, Marie, a couple of machinists, and Rob.
Rob Muru inherited the business from his father, Ilmar Muru, an Estonian immigrant who opened a small tool and die shop in 1964. It was almost on the verge of costing us business.” The current system we had for programming/setup/organization was showing itself daily to be obsolete. “The system we had ran its course and the time had come to go in a different direction. “We had the wrong environment and the wrong organizational structure,” said Muru. Of course, the employee’s request was ridiculous. Unfortunately the idea of teaching someone, even simple programming on “his” computer and set-up to do the simpler jobs, was categorically rejected as a way of helping solve the issue. The programming and set-up work arrived in up and down cycles.
He wanted Muru to tell its largest military customer to space out work more evenly so he could keep up. As a case in point, about six years ago, one of A-Line’s cell programmers had a request for the shop's owner, Rob Muru.
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