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What is a Company’s Most Important Job?

What is absolutely the one thing that truly determines organizational success? Is it supervision? Operations? Accounting? Purchasing? Each of these are core competencies without which a company can struggle and ultimately fail. But what is the most important job for the organization?

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Seco Adds Courses to 2013 STEP Training Schedule

These courses ensure Seco customers and distributors are up-to-speed on the latest tooling systems and metal cutting techniques.

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Automation

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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Workholding

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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Oh, My May

Oh, My May

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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…

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