Craig Simpson, president and CEO, Rocky Mountain Composites (RMC), wishes he'd discovered OpenCNC[R] software sooner. If he had, he could have saved almost $250,000 on a project that required 5-axis machining.

The company had built a 6' x 10' x 4' overhead gantry mill in 1996, but the machine's proprietary control just never performed up to expectation. As a result of ongoing control problems, Simpson had to outsource a large portion of a major project, which could have been completed in house.