Insource Your Way To Success

"The more business we get, the better our equipment will be," Verser says, explaining that his shop has to purchase all equipment with income earned from charging back for its services, not with budgetary funds. So more insourcing means better equipment, which directly benefits his core customers.

All across the country in-plants are learning this lesson: insourcing can strengthen their operations by making them a revenue source (instead of a cash drain) and by allowing them to upgrade their technology.