June 2013
| Business World Magazine | 161
shapes in a manner that is efficient, fast and
accurate.
Logan says the company has essentially
deployed technology to allow for monitor-
ing and measuring of company operations.
“We know what is happening with our
equipment at any time of operation or non-
operation. We’re monitoring all processes
and parameters and getting feedback of data
continuously which helps us better under-
stand exactly how we’re functioning. We’re
constantly striving for improvement and that
requires measuring. In hockey, you have to
know how many shots you made, how many
hits, how many blocks. In business, you have
to keep up with your stats too,” says Logan.
Of course, in business, you have to keep
customers too. Palmer Foundry is shipping
components to customers throughout the
world today, and Logan says he is confident
that the company will continue to grow. In
fact, Palmer Foundry secured town permits
to add 10,000 square feet of space to their fa-
cility this past year. Logan says as more indus-
tries come to understand the value, strength
and compositional capability of their alu-
minum castings, there will be new oppor-
tunities and new applications in which the
company is prepared to perform. As Logan
affirms, “One of our goals has been to raise
awareness because casting isn’t typically the
first thing in an engineer’s toolbox... but this
is a technology that can work in high-tech
applications ... it can be used for a lot more
than just making manhole covers.”
