One of the benefits Hirsch cites is that the tooling configuration allows attacking the parts from a variety of angles. What's more, he points out that the software permits overlapping moves to occur, thereby saving seconds during the machining cycle. These procedures help assure consistency, which is certainly important in running airbag components. For example, as previously mentioned, changes to process sheets can't be made without approval from a team. He notes that if one person thought that he had a better way of doing something and simply made a change to the process, there would be no assured way of capturing this change.
Good parts mean more money for one and all.
A benefit of hiring inexperienced people is that because they don't think that they know everything about machining when they come in the door, they are more likely to ask the types of questions about why things are done the way they are that can lead to improvements. For example, he'd heard that one part supplier had dropped the ball on a program. Hirsch knew that the buyer for that program was going to be visiting Cobra, so because he knows what the part was, he setup a machine to produce it. The part was produced. In two weeks' time, Cobra was ready to run production.