PHILLIPS 360 TEAM
Arkansas

“We’re confident that our sales, service and application Partners know what needs to be done to revolutionize the experience we create for our customers and it is our belief that Phillips 360 Teams will give them the opportunity to accomplish this.​”

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Phillips Opto helps you achieve rapid, affordable productivity gains by significantly improving your machining processes. We’ve assembled some of the industry’s leading machining experts to help you:

// Design new processes
// Optimize programming, set-up and tooling
// Prove out new parts
// Troubleshoot production for hidden inefficiencies
// Integrate robotics solutions
// Fast-track employee skills

Phillips Opto is a fresh pair of eyes. A source of new ideas. And an insurance policy against fast-changing technology and processes. 

BEN VANDEHOEF
By The Numbers

Many of his customers describe him as “one of the best in the business.”

Nearly 20 years as an aerospace machinist working on everything from B-2 Bombers to the Space Shuttle.

Years of experience as a lead programmer, shop supervisor, and head machinist in a wide range of industries.

Specialized in low volume parts customized parts run on all types of machines, including a focus in 5 axis mills and dual spindle Y axis lathes.

TRAVIS HONEA
By The Numbers

“I wake up every morning looking forward to the challenges that the day holds. Every part, every process, and every application presents its own set of constraints and obstacles, and nothing motivates me more than the opportunity to conquer every one of them!”

Welcome to the Future of Manufacturing

Choose Your Default Experience

6+ years as a manufacturing plant manager where he focused on new product development and implementation, process improvement and shop floor work flow in a fast passed high mix environment.

25+ years of experience in the industry with most of it in the field of Tool and Die, with a focus on progressive stamping and CNC machining.

Specializes in fixture building, fabrication, and specialized machine design. He holds 2 Journeyman’s certifications from the US Department of Labor and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.

What People are Saying about Phillips Opto

Stan Wright's word of wisdom

If you think you know everything, you are not going to get anywhere. You got to be willing to reach out and learn and Phillips has a lot to teach.

Stan Wright
Machine Shop Manager for Nighthawk

Learn from our Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Dave Myers full story

I rarely do this, but I highly recommend Ben. You just don't see this kind of technical skills he has very often.

Dave Myers
Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Phillips Quality and Maintenance Supervisor at Gerdau Mr.Nathan Hoagland's take on current productivity.

This wasn't just about productivity. It was also about sustainability.

Nathan Hoagland
Quality and Maintenance Supervisor at Gerdau

Phillips Opto is low cost and low risk.

Turnkeys put the onus on the supplier to meet the often stringent part specification and process time requirement of the customer. Generally expensive, sophisticated machines are the basis for highly defined, inflexible processes. The customer’s environment is often a variable which is little known to suppliers, potentially causing expensive adaptions to the process. The process is generally fraught with risk which is priced into the turnkey. Often suppliers work to keep their know-how or trade secrets from the customer. The expectation that the supplier provide a fully functioning system that meets quality standards, process times, and delivery and installation schedules with little support from the customer and a secretive supplier tend to create an adversarial relationship between supplier and customer.

To sum it up turnkeys are expensive, risky, and tend to lead to unsatisfactory adversarial relationships.

The key is developing a partnering relationship with our customers.

We use high value, flexible, and relatively inexpensive Haas machines as our basis and personal highly skilled application engineers. Together Phillips and our customers create our jointly owned objectives, which reduces risk and makes the service relatively inexpensive. We work hand in hand (Phillips and our customer) to accomplish the objectives, which are based on vastly improving productivity and building competencies by transferring know-how.

Our value is guaranteed. If we don’t meet your expectations – you don’t pay.

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