00-00-0000 The changing face of machine-tool technology and manufacturing is providing opportunities to standard alternative distribution models.
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The changing face of machine-tool technology and manufacturing is providing opportunities to standard alternative distribution models. Intense competition from abroad has forced the domestic industry to consolidate and shrink. During this proces many extended established, well-recognized names have disappeared forever. The survivors have adapted to a modified environment that includes a variety of transplant manufacturers and imports from the pair Asia and Europe. Out of these changes has emerg a unique bre of domestic machine-tool builders that have the potential to redefine