Case Study: Minster Joinery achieves pinpoint accuracy and dramatically reduced lead times with Vero Software's Alphacam

Bespoke Made Easy No Joiner Can Out-Perform Alphacam

Minster Joinery (Witney) Ltd, a family-run bespoke joinery business founded in 1984, produces architect-designed, highly detailed work for prestigious clients including Oxford colleges and historic estates. The company faced the challenge of delivering unusually complex, curved and multi‑planed pieces to exacting standards and in consistent batches—work that was time-consuming and often beyond traditional manual programming methods.

They adopted Alphacam CAD/CAM and a 5‑axis SCM Prisma router, with just three days’ training enabling rapid programming and on‑screen iteration (typical adjustments take ~20 minutes). The result: pinpoint accuracy on large and complex jobs (including a 7.2 m timber), dramatically reduced lead times, reliable repeatability for batch work, and the ability to accept commissions other shops would have to turn away.

Minster Joinery

Peter Mullins