Having been in numerous machine shops in my life, worked in 15 of them in 13 years, it reminded me of quite a few. The smell of Blaser coolant, concrete floors, adeqate lighing and some home brew solutions. The most suprising thing for me was to look at the racks of assembly kits and do some quick math, at a cost of at least a $100/knife I saw well over $1 million dollars of inventory. But then I realize I build tools that sell for over that and I was still impressed.
One area I would improve on is their automated lazer engraving/seration grinder, only because that is the industry I work it and it just looks out of place with all the other equipment.