PM Blog
Understand What Products Customers are Buying
To apply either positioning or USP correctly, look from the customers’ viewpoint. That is, what are they buying, not what are you selling.
Read MoreA Job Description for Manufacturing Executives
The time for change is now, and for manufacturing companies it is important to develop relationships with people in the government and other influential areas of business to get the message across.
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Industry Leaders Agree: PMPA’s Management Update is a Must
When PMPA’s Management Update Conference comes around next month (February 25-27 at Disney’s Contemporary Resort), make sure you find yourself in Orlando, Fla.
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Predictive Index: Learn How to Make Better Hiring Decisions and Develop
In November, PMPA began partnering with PI Worldwide to help solve the problem of finding and retaining skilled machinists.
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Easily Upgrade Machines with Hexapods
If you are like me, you’ve never heard of a hexapod until recently (or now), but I put two and two together to figure out that it was a machining apparatus with six legs.
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Making More Than Parts for Medical
This Ohio shop succeeds in manufacturing for the medical industry by creating value for its customers beyond discrete parts manufacturing. Adding design engineering, test and measurement expertise to its contract machining capability, American-Micro has made itself a highly valued problem solver for its customers.
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Presetting Pays Dividends
Many shops are moving away from centralized toolroom operations and opting instead for distributed tool presetting on the shop floor. The presetting machines available today are accurate, easy to use and provide closed-loop tool compensation on the CNC machine tool, saving significant time during job change-over.
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Miniature Tooling System Big on Swiss Turning
The use of Swiss-type sliding headstock machines for processing medical parts continues to grow. The work involves very intricate high-precision machining that has been placing an increased emphasis on tooling setups and change-over times.
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High Accuracy From Direct-Drive Rotary Technology
Consider direct-drive, high-accuracy rotary tables when applying fourth-axis machining capability on the shop floor.
Read MoreSimulation Brings Software to Life
I still get excited when I see interesting enhancements to existing software or new software products that facilitate production improvements.
Read MoreA Place for Robots in Metalworking
What do C3-PO, Johnny 5, the Sentinels, Optimus Prime, D.A.R.Y.L., the Fembots and HAL9000 have in common?
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