Modern Cam & Tool was started by my father, Don Bitters, in 1971. He had previous experience in the screw machine industry as general manager of a company named Modern Collett. Modern Collett was a screw machine rebuilder and parts supplier for many years. Eventually the owners of the Modern Collett decided to abandon what they saw was a dying industry and sold the assets of to my father, who renamed the business. 

 At the outset Modern Cam continued rebuilding machines and producing replacement parts for National Acme, New Britain Machine and Conomatic screw machines. As time went on, he made the strategic decision to focus solely on cams for those machines. In 1985, he asked me to join the business and he retired a few years later. We expanded our expertise to include supplying cams for Tornos, Schutte, Euroturn, Wickman, Gildemeister and many other automated machines.

We have no doubt benefited from the acquisition of several Mazak horizontal and vertical CNC machining centers, developing our own proprietary cam generating software, acquiring new technology such as our Romer PCMM and Stratasys Dimension 3D printer. However, I believe we have benefited most from the lesson of my  father's unwavering commitment to providing our customers with the proper cams to keep the screw machine industry competitive and viable.

We are proud of playing a role in helping our customers continue to be resourceful and competitive with machines that were never intended to run the kind of parts that are being run economically today.  After 38 years, we still have the same faith in the resiliency of the screw machine industry that my father had in 1971.

Scott Bitters, Owner