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Employee Ownership
When a company has the support of a dedicated group of employees, it’s likely to continue to grow.
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Catch Them if You Can: Obsolete Specifications
The time to catch an obsolete specification is during contract review, before there are commitments to material and/or sunk costs of material, production and inspection.
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The Importance of Thread Whirling in the Medical Field
After working in this industry for even a short time, you are in tune with all the things around you that have been created on a metalworking machine tool and realize how extensive the list is. Almost everything made in a factory contains at least one part that was manufactured on a machine tool.
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Now That’s Smart
Consider bearings, those critical yet mostly quiet servants of industry. It seems that bearing manufacturer, SKF, has managed to enable its new bearings to let us know how they are doing.
Read MoreThread Whirling in the Medical Field
After working in this industry for even a short time, you are in tune with all the things around you that have been created on a metalworking machine tool and realize how extensive the list is.
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Digital Dental Prosthesis Production
Digital dental technologies are helping to transform every aspect of the dental industry. The days of tedious, manual production of crowns, copings and bridges are fast disappearing.
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Diamond Tool Enables Company to Overcome Production Stop
Sometimes the most experienced technicians or skilled toolmakers need to look to outside specialists when it comes to solving critical service problems.
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Shopfloor Data and the Future of Manufacturing
Redundancy is far too common in many areas of life. Standardized processes that streamline production might be the perfect solution.
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Shop Safety: A Dozen Indicators to Score Your Shop
As a manufacturing guy, I have spent a lot of time in shops in many industries.
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PMPA to Make History in a Historic Setting
This fall, the Precision Machined Products Association celebrates 80 years of continuous operation as the industry’s trade association.
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Smart Machining Centers
These days, precision machine shops are often looking to expand the range of work they can take on profitably. It is not enough, in many instances, to be exclusively a turning shop.
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Ned Hill Presents Manufacturing’s Future at PMPA Annual Meeting
Edward W. (Ned) Hill, dean and professor of economic development at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University, is a renowned speaker on manufacturing policy and economics and will present at the PMPA Annual Meeting, October 18-22.
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