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Captive Shop Must Still Compete Often, a captive shop seems to have it made by job shop standards. In the case of this division of ITW Welding, "work is not given, it's earned." I n 1929, a young Niels Miller was tinkering around with the idea of making a small, portable electric welder in his garage. Little did he know at that time that his pioneering effort would help create an entirely new way of looking at personal and professional welding. Until that time, arc welders were large industrial three-phase welders that resided in factories. e small businessman and farmer had little or no access to these machines, so repairs could be difficult to achieve. Recognizing a need, and wanting to be the one to fill it, Mr. Miller went about building his first welder. It was an interesting contraption contained within a wooden box, but it worked. He continued working to improve his product. After three more versions of built-in wooden boxes, he developed one contained in a steel box, and soon after Niels loaded up his truck and hit the road. He went from farm to farm selling his portable welders; thus the Miller Electric Manufacturing Co. was born. Miller Electric remained a family owned and run business from 1929 until it was sold to ITW in 1994. ITW was formed in 1912 after Chicago financier Byron Smith teamed with a group of inventors that Contributed by Kevin Shults ROTARY TRANSFER 34 PRODUCTION MACHINING :: SEPTEMBER 2017