El Co Machine Products Inc

State-of-the-art computers control the precise shaping of aircraft parts at El-Co Machine Products Inc., but the tiny, 16-employee company still largely tracks orders and production by hand. Without a $25,000 automated tracking system and other improvements, the Inglewood company says, it would soon be left behind, and perhaps left out of, Southern California's shrinking aerospace industry.

State-of-the-art computers control the precise shaping of aircraft parts at El-Co Machine Products Inc., but the tiny, 16-employee company still largely tracks orders and production by hand. Without a $25,000 automated tracking system and other improvements, the Inglewood company says, it would soon be left behind, and perhaps left out of, Southern California's shrinking aerospace industry.