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Auletta is on the
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Bauer, too, has
gotten financial back-
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recent years, Bauer
received a $100,000
loan through the
state's Small Business
Express loan pro-
gram, to develop one
of its newest electron-
ic testing systems.
The company also
is in talks with Connecticut Innovations, the
state's technology-promotions arm, about
a $50,000 grant that Bauer would match
to implement more "lean production'' and
continuous-improvement initiatives, one of
which would ultimately do away with paper
blueprints, Auletta said.
Engineers make up the bulk of Bauer's
92-person workforce. They are divided into
four teams, consisting of team leaders, proj-
ect and electrical engineers and designers.
"Each team might be responsible for seven
or eight projects at a time,'' said Auletta,
who in 2002 acquired the company that had
changed hands several times among several
corporate owners.
Though an engineer, Auletta estimates
that most of his 25 years at Bauer have been
spent on the road, mostly overseas — to
China, Japan, Ethiopia, Brazil, the Middle
East, among others — calling on existing
customers and drumming up new ones.
"We don't have a single biggest customer,'' he
said. "We might be in a $2 million project with a
customer today. But then we might not do anoth-
er deal with them for three or four years.'' n
One of Bauer's test stands on display at the 1967 Paris Air Show.
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