The CAMS team are not only exceptional craftsmen engineers but enthusiasts for their work as well. Nothing gives them more satisfaction than to start with a corroded, badly damaged part, figure out how it worked, redesign it then the critical bit – figuring out how to re-manufacture it. Then down to the workshop and watch as a new part – both functional and beautiful – emerges from a billet of raw metal. The end of the day comes as a disappointment, the end of the week as an excuse to come into the workshop on the weekend.

All of CAMS design, reverse engineering and manufacture is under Owner/Engineer Tony Wytenburg’s personal direction and each part must meet with his exacting standards of engineering and craftsmanship. Nothing leaves the workshop without his approval. CAMS outstanding capability is to find ways to re-manufacture parts and components using modern techniques and materials but that retain as close as possible the original appearance and specifications.

Tony not only has an almost obsessive attention to detail but a highly developed sense of fairness. That’s reflected in CAMS pricing policy. Because many parts have to be reverse engineered before they can be re-manufactured, there’s a lot of thinking time involved. Part science, part art, CAMS figures out how parts can be manufactured, often having to use different materials and technologies to the originals. “Sometimes it takes us days, weeks for more complex jobs, just to figure out how to machine the new part. We can’t always charge that all on to the customer. We look at the job and ask ourselves, what’s it worth to the customer and that’s what we charge. Then we store away the CAD file and hope we’ll get asked to make another one some time in the future.” says Tony. Fortunately, as the business grows, more and more CAMS is able to manufacture to inventory providing customers with more choice and even quicker delivery.