HZT Honermeier Zerspanungstechnik, located in Bünde, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, manufactures prototypes, individual parts and series for the printing and food industries as well as machine and automobile manufacturing. Lars Honermeier made himself independent in 2001 and since then has relied on flexible manufacturing and a personal relationship with his business partners. Currently twelve qualified employees are working in the successful family business. They create CNC programs and develop economical metal cutting and clamping strategies. Workpieces are also machined on milling centres from Maschinenfabrik Berthold HERMLE AG. "For cost reasons, our first HERMLE was a used 3-axis machine", recalls Honermeier. This was followed about five years ago by a series C 12 U compact machining centre. "There are many small details that make day-to-day work easier", explains the Managing Director, and he cites tool management as an example: "Instead of the operator looking for the tools manually, the Hermle machine indicates after the simulation whether the required tools are loaded."