PM Blog
Stress Cracks in Steel Bar Products
Stress cracks are often seen in locations that experience bending or straightening. They are also referred to as “cross cracks” or “transverse cracks.” Originally, they were identified in mill billet and bloom products prior to rolling.
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Training the Next Generation: What a Difference a Student Day Can Make
At PMTS 2017, more than 300 students from Ohio and surrounding areas came to learn about precision machining and the careers available in our shops. Community colleges, tech schools, career centers and vocational schools brought their students to see firsthand the breadth of our industry.
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PMPA Technical Member Stainless and Aluminum Inc. Finds Success in Quality Materials and Customized Distribution
Stainless and Aluminum specializes in stainless steel, aluminum and steel bar distribution. The company also specializes in cutting with capabilities of plus or minus 0.005 inch in length and up to 14 inches in diameter for CNC shops that need larger sizes.
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Precision Machining Industry Outlook: You Should be Bullish, Too
To sustain our businesses successfully, we need to intelligently manage risk, but for too many years, we have been conditioned by the market and the federal government to hunker down and try to avoid all risk.
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United Grinding Announces Strategic Consolidation
United Grinding North America has announced a strategic move for continued growth, closing its Fredericksburg office on July 1 and moving those operations to the Miamisburg, Ohio, headquarters.
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Gardner Business Index: Precision Machining, May 2017 - 55.6
Given the large delta between prices received and input costs, it may only be a matter of time before rising input costs are passed along to machine consumers.
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Rotary Transfer Moves Forward
“Beyond One And Done” looks at how the use of newer technologies has changed the traditional application of rotary transfer technology in production shops.
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Good News from the Employment-Population Ratio
The employment-population ratio is a useful indicator and currently a positive one.
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JTEKT Toyoda Americas Unveils Great Lakes Technical Center
Nestled at the heart of the U.S. automotive industry and almost 40 miles from the Canadian border, Toyoda’s Wixom, Michigan-based tech center provides sales application, turnkey and service support to manufacturers in the Great Lakes region.
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Hydromat-RE to Focus on Machine Rebuilds and Sales
Hydromat Inc. and Motch & Eichele Co. have created a third entity, Hydromat-RE Inc., which will specialize in the refurbishing, retooling and selling of legacy Hydromat rotary transfer machines.
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Vacuum Cycling Nucleation
It has become incumbent on manufacturers to learn about the most efficient methods of parts cleaning technologies.
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Choosing the Right Aqueous Cleaning Operation
For most machining processes, water-based solutions can be applied using tailored technologies for specific applications.
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