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A Shop Owner's List to Change the Perception
Our precision machining industry, and our shops, will not be able to grow our capabilities without adding skilled workforce.
Read MoreCellular Manufacturing Creates Most Efficient Processes
Living in a high-tech world, the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “cellular” might be a cell phone.
Read MoreCraftsman's Cribsheet: 5 Buyer Decisions that Can Increase Part Costs
Small order quantities are a double-edged sword.
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Probing for Quality
Committed employee owners are the foundation of this company’s achievements in high precision manufacturing.
Read MoreProcess Integration Boosts American Manufacturing
After the traditional summer slowdown in machine tool orders, it was encouraging to see the activity in September.
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First Deadline 1 Year Away for Revised OSHA Hazard Communication Standard
On May 25, OSHA aligned its Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) with the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) in use in Europe.
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New CNC Multi-Spindle Designed for Form Tools
Advances in technology can be disruptive. However, some advances can provide new possibilities for existing methods and tools leading to leaps forward in efficiency and effectiveness.
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A Look at Precision Machining by PMPA President Ron Bracalente
Another key element of our industry is the knowledge base we have. We’re not new to manufacturing, and we have the know-how behind us, but we are losing that knowledge.
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The Most Important Challenge
I just returned from two and a half days at IMTS, the metalworking industry’s biggest gathering in North America.
Read MoreVote or Shut Up
If all politics is local then what happens on the national/federal level may seem to be removed from our villages, townships, cities and states.
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Micro-Boring Tool Calms ‘Perfect Storm’ for Medical Parts Fabricator
In one of its first commercial applications, an Ingersoll micro-boring tool has brought process stability to a machining application that the user describes as a “perfect storm.”
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Finishing Touch
Tornos is not an everyday name in the surface finishing industry, but the company is well known as a machine tool builder, with some of the best machines in the world coming out of its European headquarters.
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