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Automated Machining Transforms South Carolina Shop
Looking back over the history of the company, plant operations manager Dan Hogge says the shop has made a dramatic change roughly once every 7 years. The move from screw machines to CNC was one of the earlier shifts. Embracing lights-out machining is the latest.
Read MoreMachine Tool Data Collection in the Cloud
Instead of a company collecting its own data from its machines by purchasing a server—which can cause a plethora of technical issues, including patching, upgrading, malware, viruses, not to mention a large expense—a cloud computing service for manufacturing is often a more practical option.
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Leveraging Shop Management Software for Better ROI
Learning how to make the most of its management system can help a shop cut costs and run more efficiently.
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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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