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Affordable Cleaning Tests
Formal lab analysis can be costly and time-consuming, but there are simple in-house measures you can take to screen your parts for contaminants.
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Mitutoyo America Donates Metrology Tools to Students
Mitutoyo America Corp. recently provided the Digimatic caliper and a micrometer to students pursuing degrees in the Engineering Technology Program at Northern Illinois University.
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Parts2clean Reveals Parts Cleaning Market Trends
A first visit to parts2clean in Stuttgart, Germany, is eye-opening to the importance of the parts cleaning market.
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Renishaw-Sponsored Team Finds Formula Student Success
The Cardiff Racing team, sponsored by Renishaw, was recently crowned the first ever UK winners of Formula Student.
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Automation Helps Improve Employee Productivity
Stark Industrial LLC’s first stand-alone robot works within a new turning machine cell that is currently dedicated to the simple machining operation of processing a cast aerospace part that is proprietary and is the further step the shop needed to gain process control.
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Locked and Loaded for Further Growth in Firearms Production
Even with a strong and varied manufacturing background, it wasn’t until a few years ago that this father and son team found its way into the manufacture of weaponry components. Nonetheless, business is booming.
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When and When Not to Use Guide Bushings
In the article “Shop Opts for Choice in Swiss Machines,” a Lancaster, Ohio, shop has taken advantage of this choice. The shop’s staff discusses how the choice is made as to which parts it applies to the guide-bushed machine and which parts it runs “bushless.”
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Craftsman's Cribsheet No. 60: Decarburization and Your Precision Machine Shop
Most defects in steel workpieces encountered in precision machine shops are longitudinal in nature. While their presence alone is enough to concern us, for the purposes of corrective action, it becomes important to identify where in the process the longitudinal imperfection first occurred.
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Training the Next Generation: Thinking About New Employee Outreach from the Shop’s Perspective
We are all faced with a challenge regarding today’s new workforce. We all need to think outside the box about our company culture, training systems, operational strategies and relationships with high schools and vocational institutions. Here are some other things to think about that we have found to be helpful.
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PMPA Member Laurel Steel Finds Success in Quality Products and Workplace Safety
Laurel Steel is headquartered in a state-of-the-art, 350,000-square-foot facility in Burlington, Ontario, and primarily manufactures cold-drawn steel bar products for the service center, fluid power and automotive industries.
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PMPA Membership Value
PMPA member value can be broken down into four core buckets: benchmarking, networking, savings and training.
Read MoreThe ‘Easy’ Button for Tool Changing
Although there’s no such thing as the easy button, there are smart tooling choices you can make that lead to efficient, safe machining and other benefits. One such technology is quick-change tooling. Although there are different types of quick-change tooling systems, they all were created for the same purposes: to increase productivity, shorten setup time, provide flexibility and save money.
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