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Tempering Steel

This chart shows the colors that are elicited by tempering a 0.95-percent carbon content steel at the temperatures shown.

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Parts Cleaning

The Process and Equipment Relationship

Anyone charged with the responsibility of implementing a cleaning step within their manufacturing operation should understand the interrelationship between the cleaning process itself and the cleaning equipment.

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CAD/CAM

Software Provides Time Savings and Improved Accuracy

Shops get paid for making chips, and profit comes from making them as efficiently as possible. Shop management software is a key to reducing waste by ensuring that machining is being done on the right jobs, in the right way and at the right time.

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Don’t Bobble Your Event Logistics: Use a Trusted Expedited Freight Services Partner

Finding the right partner with the expertise and resources to plan and execute time-critical and time-sensitive shipments is a great place to start.

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Technical School Aims to Spark Interest in Female Students Pursuing STEM Careers

One school is reaching out to a demographic often neglected in the recruitment process for STEM careers: female students.

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The Industrial Internet of Things is Here

In the future, more shops will be making more complicated workpieces using a variety of processes.

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Report from the Team

Here's what we've accomplished for our members at PMPA this year.

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PMPA Elects Harry Eighmy President

“I’ve learned that the greatest task at hand is getting good,technically skilled people in the workforce...”

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Oktoberfest Draws Attention to Rotary Transfer and Turn-Mill Technology

The latest rotary transfer technology and mill-turn centers as well as German food, beer, live music from a German heritage band are all under one roof.

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TRAM Visit Brings AMRC to Light

At the heart of the TRAM conference is AMRC, an acronym for Advanced Manufacturing Research Center.

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OSHA Fines will Increase 80%

Federal penalties for workplace safety violations were increased for the first time since 1990, thanks to a provision of the budget bill signed into law by President Barack Obama.

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October Business Index Contracts at Fastest Rate

The material prices index contracted for the fourth month in a row.

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