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Apprentices Inspire a New Generation of Engineers
Renishaw recently saw 55 of its apprentices volunteer at MACH 2018 in support of the Education and Development Zone. The initiative involved tours, talks and demonstrations for students aged 11 to 19.
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Craftman's Cribsheet Number 68: Ten Important Things to Know Before Working as a CNC Machinist
The machinist is a bag of water, and the tools and workpieces are harder and sharper.
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PMPA Member Ashley Ward Finds Success in Equipment Investment and Vertical Integration
Established more than a century ago, Ashley Ward Inc. has become one of the United States’ largest companies in the screw machine industry, with five locations across the country.
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Seduction or Intention: Choosing Your Time Wisely at IMTS
PMPA’s latest “Business Trends Report” shows that shops are busy working overtime and juggling their schedules to produce the almost unprecedented demand for components from our customers.
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Manuel Merkt, President and COO, Hermle Machine Co.
Manuel was once a young factory worker in Germany who navigated his way to where he is today—the president and COO of an international manufacturing company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Milling and Turning: Blurring the Lines
This story looks at an example of one such shop that transitioned from machining center-based metalcutting to multitasking on mill-turn machines.
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Top Shops Comes to IMTS 2018
At IMTS 2018 this year, Modern Machine Shop’s Top Shops program hopes to deliver actionable insights based on input from real machining businesses that can be taken back to a business and applied immediately.
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Business Index Produces Another Choppy Reading
The Precision Machining Index reports another month of volatile up and down readings.
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Emerging Leaders Series: Parrish Castor, Director of Quality and Technology, DaCruz Manufacturing
Although Parrish Castor’s background includes a degree in criminal justice, a brief stint playing minor league baseball and then working as an underwriter, he was destined for a career in manufacturing.
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Challenging Factors in Turning Tightly Toleranced Parts
This shop produces 100 housing covers made of high-tensile aluminum every year, and has reinvented and improved its machining processes in order to face the challenge of thin walls.
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Siemens/Festo Didactic Partnership Takes Aim at Skills Gap
Siemens is partnering with Festo Didactic to offer a certification program to help students, instructors and learning institutions combat the skills gap in the rapidly changing manufacturing industry.
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Emerging Leaders Series: Jami Massey, CEO, C&H Enterprises
Jami Massey, the first of our Emerging Leaders that we will highlight each week in this blog, believes that the customer drives production and only an extraordinary team determines success.
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