Yes, we have much more in common with software development than we do with manufacturing. We have more stages of production than software, and we have a challenging situation of shared resources between projects (we are generally working anywhere from 25-50 projects at once in our shop using shared resources), but the variance factor of 1) not knowing exactly how long it will take to make something because it's never been made before, and 2) different employees taking vastly different amounts of time to accomplish the same task are both shared challenges that we face along with software development.
Anything made from steel. Everything from small machined parts all the way up to the swing arms on electric mining shovels. We have some parts we build that require two 60 ton cranes to lift. Everything in between, mostly for the energy industry.
