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Learning by Showing Up
So I was sitting on the patio of the Hotel del Coronado with a couple of PMPA members talking about things on a beautiful San Diego afternoon when this lady with a hawk on her wrist came up.
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Shaving Seconds with Faster Quick-Change Tool Systems
Modern tooling is reducing tool change time, taking tooling changes from minutes down to seconds.
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OSHA’s Top 10 Most Frequently Cited Standards for FY 2013
The National Safety Council recently released a preliminary compilation of OSHA’s Top 10 Most Frequently Cited Standards in the 2013 fiscal year.
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Continuous Improvement: Shadow Boards
Avoiding the tools you don't need is as much of a problem as being unable to find the tools that are needed.
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Business Development: How to Win Bigger Contracts
At the PMPA Management Update Conference, February 21-23, 2014, in Las Vegas, John Wirtz will present a business development session on winning larger contracts, or “whale hunting,” for precision machined parts manufacturers.
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Mike Duffin Looks Back at 11 Years as PMPA Executive Director
“When he was named executive director of PMPA, Mike brought to the job a unique perspective having been an association member in his former life.”
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Tying It All Together
Like links in a chain, each component of a workcell can only be effective when the entire system works together well.
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Apprenticeships Could Develop Manufacturing’s Comeback
Here are seven key reasons they say the U.S. should be developing apprenticeship programs.
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Gardner’s Precision Machining Index Shows Business Flattened
According to Steven Kline, Jr., market analyst for Gardner Business Media Inc., parent company to PM, the October PMI showed that business conditions in the industry flattened.
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What Glass Ceiling?
At the recently concluded PMPA annual meeting in San Diego, the organization named Darlene Miller, president of and CEO of Permac Industries, as its new president. She's also the first female president of the association.
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New OSHA Temporary Worker Rules Protect Them from Hazards
On “Workers Memorial Day,” OSHA sent out a memorandum regarding efforts to protect temporary workers from workplace hazards.
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Hexapods are a Simple and Affordable Way to Efficient Machining
To create more efficient machining, use a hexapod to convert a conventional machine tool into machines that produce parts on a single setup compared with several operations on a conventional machine.
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