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Genuine Parts Company (GPC) is an American automotive and industrial parts distributor based in Atlanta, Georgia. [1] Established by brothers Carlyle and Malcolm Fraser in 1928, the company has approximately 60,000 employees. [ 2 ]
Wabash National is an American diversified industrial manufacturing company and North America's largest producer of semi trailers and liquid transportation systems. The company specializes in the design and production of dry freight vans, refrigerated vans , platform trailers, liquid tank trailers, intermodal equipment, engineered products and ...
The Ford Meter Box Company is a manufacturer of products for the waterworks industry and is headquartered in Wabash, Indiana, where it operates a brass foundry.Its products include water meter setting and testing equipment, valves, couplings, meter boxes, and other fittings.
Wyman-Gordon is a wholly owned subsidiary of Precision Castparts Corp., and is based in Houston, Texas. It has thirteen (13) plants in five countries, and employed about 2,500 people as of 2012. It has thirteen (13) plants in five countries, and employed about 2,500 people as of 2012.
On 8 August 2013, Australia requested the sale of 4,002 M1156 Precision Guidance Kits with training and associated equipment for $54 million, [15] something unusual for an item still in low-rate initial production. [16] PGKs were ordered for Australia and Canada in February 2015. [17]
The American Precision Museum is located in the renovated 1846 Robbins & Lawrence factory on South Main Street in Windsor, Vermont. The building is said to be the first U.S. factory at which precision interchangeable parts were made, giving birth to the precision machine tool industry.
Precision Castparts (PCC) was founded by Joseph Buford Cox on April 1, 1953. [6] Cox was owner of Oregon Saw Chain and in 1949 had started a casting operation to make saw teeth with assistant general manager Ed Cooley also working on the project.
The Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) is an American military airdrop system which uses the Global Positioning System (GPS), steerable parachutes, and an onboard computer to steer loads to a designated point of impact (PI) on a drop zone (DZ). The JPADS family of systems consists of several precision airdrop systems, ranging from extra ...