re: #119 subsailor68

Man, I sure hope things turn around for you soon, but I hear where you’re coming from. I have a three year old CTS, and there are a lot of them out there. If folks in your industry (assuming parts production or other support is in your area of expertise) aren’t there to support our products, we’re all screwed.

I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you!

Well, we serve a lot of different markets - our area of expertise is what you’d call “quality assurance” in the industrial world. We design, manufacture, and program test equipment for a wide variety of applications, from materials to automotive to aerospace. The fact is, though, that automotive was BOOMING just a few years ago, and orders in the automotive and heavy industrial (think Caterpillar) sectors were off the charts. But with their sales plummeting, they’re cutting capital investments and infrastructure developments, which means canceled orders, which means… Well, any capitalist infidel knows where that’s going.