WEBINAR: The Continuous Improvement Habit Every Shop Needs

July 22nd, 2026, at 2:00 pm ET

Why your “dialed in” jobs probably aren’t, and how Bob McGregor of Neo Industries finds the minutes other shops are leaving on the table.

Most shops quote a job, run it, and never look at it again until something breaks. The bigger the shop, the more jobs are quietly drifting in the background, and the harder it gets to spot which ones are bleeding cycle time.

Bob McGregor, owner of Neo Industries in suburban Dallas-Fort Worth, joins Gabe Maentz to talk about the discipline that actually closes that gap. Bob treats every run as a data point. He compares run-to-run and batch-to-batch, hunts down the longest tools in the cut, and asks the same question over and over: where is the next minute hiding? On one titanium job alone, that habit took cycle time from 32 minutes to 21, a 34% gain without buying a new machine.

This conversation is about the system behind the result. The principles are the same whether you run 5 spindles or 50. The shops that keep finding capacity are the ones that build continuous improvement into how they operate, not into a once-a-year project.

What you’ll hear:

• How to spot the jobs that look optimized but are quietly leaking time
• The run-to-run, batch-to-batch review cadence Bob uses to catch drift early
• How to break a cycle down tool-by-tool and decide where to invest first
• The math behind tooling decisions, and how to know when a $600 insert pays for itself
• Why this habit scales, and what it takes to make it stick across a larger shop

If your team is running hard but the cycle times haven’t moved in a year, this is a play worth hearing.

This session is ideal for:

• Shop owners who suspect their “dialed-in” jobs have more time to give
• Operations leaders looking for a repeatable continuous improvement cadence
• Process engineers and programmers who want a sharper way to prioritize tooling and tool path investment
• Anyone running a small cell today who wants the discipline in place before they scale

About Neo Industries
Neo Industries is a precision machining shop based in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, serving customers across aerospace, defense, and other demanding industries that require complex, tight-tolerance work. Under owner Bob McGregor, the shop has built a reputation for getting more out of every spindle through disciplined, data-driven continuous improvement. Rather than chasing capacity through equipment purchases alone, Neo treats every run as a chance to learn, comparing cycle times batch-to-batch and hunting down the longest tools in the cut to keep finding minutes that other shops leave on the table.