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A Show of Their Own
Held the second week of April, HaasTec included machine demonstrations, extensive tours of Haas Automation’s 1 million-square-foot facility, a catered lunch, and 38 vendor booths with representatives from major CAD/CAM, tooling, and workholding manufacturers.
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Closing the Loop—Post Job Continuous Improvement
You need to have a post job review with the estimating department to make sure the quote was accurate, and if it wasn’t, why wasn’t it, and what will you do differently with the next quote so it doesn’t happen again. Without a process for reviewing a job after completion, our shops are doomed to make the same mistakes again.
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Mark Your Calendars—GibbsCAM Webinar
GibbsCAM webinar will discuss how the implementation of several existing and proven CAM strategies, technologies and methodologies working in harmony can have a significant impact on a shop’s profitability and bottom line.
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Good’O for Delcam’s CEO
Earlier in 2013, Delcam’s chief executive, Clive Martell, was named CEO of the Year at the Grant Thornton Quoted Company Awards, sponsored by Growth Company Investor.
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Love of Craft: Britain's Oldest Blacksmith
Metalworking, whether forging, stamping, welding or machining metals, is the world’s most important craft. Without our craftwork, we would not have our modern way of life. What is your story about love of your “craft?”
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Fire Suppression System Onboard a Grinding Machine
The Sinorix 227 fire suppression system onboard this Reishauer grinder (above) at Custom Gear & Machine Inc. (Rosco, Ill.) protects the operator and machine tool.
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Mobile Device App Acts as Sales Tool
Swiss precision cutting tool manufacturer, Rego-Fix (Indianapolis, Ind.), recently announced that its sales force has been equipped with a new mobile device application that allows for instant calculation of ROI, product specifications, pricing, video demonstrations and more to improve the resources available to its customers.
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Firm Grip on the Future
This Indiana workholding manufacturer has been in business for 97 years. Its recent and ongoing investment in plant and capital equipment ensures its place as a leading supplier of standard and specialty workholding solutions for the turned parts industry.
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Responsibilities and Authorities—It’s Not About Power
A lot of people have a false idea about “power” relating to authority at work. Responsibilities and Authorities that define a managerial position are not about “power.” What separates the great bosses, the true leaders, is that they…
Read MoreMultitasking Benefits a Process in Many Ways
Multitask machining is the ability to perform various manufacturing operations unattended, without moving the part to other machines.
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Precision Machining Business Index
After tracking the business index’s performance across various technologies and markets in the metalworking industry since December 2006, Gardner Business Media, publisher of Production Machining, is now ready to present the results each month for the precision machining industry. The precision machining business index is a diffusion index that compares business conditions in the current month with the previous month.
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