Based in Chatsworth, California, RTC Chatsworth is a privately-held company with a proud 50+ year history in precision aerospace manufacturing, and a reputation for achieving the impossible in terms of complex, high-tolerance, difficult-to-machine parts.
Stable and professionally managed, RTC Chatsworth offers beginning to end solutions for entire families of commercial and aerospace parts. From the procurement of raw materials to managing inventory to dramatically lowering costs, RTC Chatsworth reduces your supply chain risk and lead times-usually to days, not months.
In the past, RTC Chatsworth was like many other high-end "machine shops" - struggling to increase quality and reduce costs in the face of growing global competition. That changed dramatically in the early 2000s when former CEO Brad Hart led the company on a radical, comprehensive retooling of the company's systems, processes, and personnel based on the insights and best practices of lean manufacturing and dedicated cellular manufacturing - as detailed in Hart's 2011 book, "Business Tranformation-The Roberts Story," written with Jim Hull.
Roberts Tool former CEO Brad Hart and author Jim Hull detail the true-life transformation of RTC into an aerospace leader through the radical application of lean-cell manufacturing principles. You'll learn step by step how to:
