OUR STORY

The Story So Far…

In the early 1960s poultry processors had a problem. Specifically, the challenge was to efficiently remove meat from the bone. Of course, chickens and other fowl have lightweight bones of various sizes, which only complicated the issue. A machinist, Dan Evans Sr., overheard a conversation about this and, being a tinkerer at heart, set himself to solve it.

Working in the basement of his family home in the evenings and on weekends, Dan finally cracked the problem and created the first Poultry Deboning Machine. And with it, Evans Machine (EMI) was born in 1968.

Over the past half century and more, EMI has grown from a one-man shop with two machines to a occupy two buildings with more than 45,000 square feet of space to house upwards of 40 of the latest CNC machines and many ancillary services.

But EMI has always been about much more than simply making parts. It's about a series of family circles, including the Evans family itself, the more than 70 families of our employees, the family of our home town of Brockton, the family of manufacturing service providers in Boston and across New England, and the extended family of our customer partners.

Each family is continually supporting and nurturing the rest, with one eye on the present and the other endlessly focused on building enduring relationships into the future.

Now run by a second generation, Dan Evans Jr., EMI is the precision manufacturing outsourcing partner trusted by Advanced Manufacturers of all stripes. We build a bridge from CAD to Completion so our customer partners don’t need to perform every manufacturing action themselves.

With capabilities that extend from prototype to production volumes, EMI is best positioned to help three distinct types of production strategies:

1. Engineer-to-Order companies requiring a high degree of design customization for a low volume of output
2. Make-to-Order companies that need moderate design customization for a relatively modest volume of output, where both manufacturing and assembly are based on their received orders
3. Make-to-Assemble with stable product designs for medium to high volumes of output. These companies typically manufacture and stock components and sub-assemblies in advance and assemble final products on orders

These firms benefit greatly from EMI's deep expertise in manufacturing and stocking complex parts and assemblies, freeing them to focus on their core skills without the distraction of needing to be world class for every step of creation. Deep empathy and experience in delivering on the dimensions that truly matter, coupled with a dedication to creating the right relationship sets EMI apart from other manufacturing in- and outsourcing options.

Whether your engineering needs today are complicated or simple, or your production volumes are small or large, or you need one part or an entire assembly, the team at EMI have the same problem-solving, customer-focused spirit that Dan Sr. brought to our founding.

From our family to yours, let's talk.