Business View Magazine | March 2020

91 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 timing needs. We continuously invest in next- generation manufacturing equipment, software, and technologies to improve our processes, capabilities, and efficiencies, both internally and for our customers. With an average of $6 million in capital investments over each of the past 5 years, we continue to ensure that we position ourselves as an elite manufacturing source.” Going forward, Peterson says that the company will begin to focus more on body and white (BIW) structure work for the automotive industry, and is planning to acquire some robotic spot- welding systems for that specific purpose. Additionally, the company recently earned AS 9100:2016 certification which will enable further growth into the aviation, space and defense markets. “The automotive industry is ever-changing,” he notes. “Some of these electric or autonomous vehicles are changing the way the car companies are launching their products. The volumes are very insignificant compared to the typical vehicle platforms that the OEM’s are bringing to market, so they have to change the way that they function and release these programs to get them to market. The volumes for these types of projects are comparatively small with unproven demand and not something that the typical supply base is interested in supporting; they can’t use their traditional tooling strategies, and that is one of the aspects of the market that our company is able to take advantage of. Understanding this fact, we have positioned ourselves to be able to support these types of low-volume production applications, implementing cost-effective tooling strategies that can be scaled as production volumes increase due to consumer demand. That’s really the focus of our company, moving forward, and one of our largest opportunities for growth is to take advantage of this aspect of the market.” For its raw materials, 3-Dimensional Services works with a number of suppliers, globally. “We recently partnered with United States Steel Corporation (U.S Steel) on development projects to help them understand the strengths and THE 3-DIMENS IONAL SERV I CES GROUP