(Hubbs Machine and Manufacturing Inc.: Cedar Hill, MO) -- As successful business innovators across industry know, customers drive markets. Renowned innovator Hubbs Machine and Manufacturing offers another example of this truism with an impressive new product born directly from a customer request.

Recently, Hubbs was afforded the opportunity by Direct Dimensions Inc. to design, create, and manufacture a unique, spherically configured target. The task involved positioning a much larger spherically featured target into existing sphere mounts that normally accept various smaller, partially spherical targets.

At first glance, this project seemed like a hard nut to crack—kind of like accurately stuffing 15 lb of potatoes into a 10-lb bag. It just doesn’t fit.

However, like many projects in the past, it didn’t take long for the Hubbs team to take the new product from initial request to prototype to production. As is common at Hubbs, team members take a personal, “hands-on” approach to many aspects of product development.

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