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Concrete Reasoning On Swiss Turning
This tech brief discusses the application of polymer concrete as a machine base material for precision Swiss turning.
Read MoreMath Tools, Utilities Online
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Read MorePM News: FMB Machinery USA Joins Forces With Hydromat Inc.
FMB Machinery USA (West Caldwell, New Jersey), a full-line manufacturer and global leader in bar feeder technology, has announced that Hydromat Inc.’s Bar Feeding Group (St. Louis, Missouri) will be a North American distributor of its magazine bar feeders and robotics line beginning January 1, 2006.
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Computer Standard To Streamline Shops
The communications protocol called MTConnect will allow all brands of machines, peripherals and managerial software to talk to one another.
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Changing Your Approach To Change-Over
When you make your living cutting parts, maximizing the time spent making chips is a good thing. Tooling a machine up and down and up again is dead time spent away from making your living. This Ohio shop has figured out how to dramatically cut its dead time. They have created cultural change that most shops can and should implement.
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Ensuring Zero-Defect Bores
Here’s how one shop makes certain that every bore meets specs for customers who believe one bad part in a million is one too many.
Read MoreDecipher The Meaning Of ‘Total Cost'
This certainly should not come as a shock to anyone, but machining a part that meets the specifications of a drawing has become commonplace.
Read MoreManagement's Changing Role
PM recently visited E. J. Basler Co., a precision machined parts producer in Schiller Park, Illinois, to congratulate company president Dennis Basler on his election as the current president of Precision Machined Parts Association (PMPA). A tour of his busy shop gave us an opportunity to meet a number of enthusiastic employees whose attitudes conveyed genuine pride in their work and their company. We asked Mr. Basler what was behind the pervasive upbeat attitude evinced by the shop's personnel. His answers offer some useful insights on the changing role of management in metalworking companies.
Read MorePreparing Your Crisis Control Plan
Effective management of risk, commitment to serve the customer and get to a win-win resolution, and a truly competent, empowered team are key to succeeding in crisis situations. But the organizational steps you take before any crisis occurs are the real keys to your company’s crisis control success.
Read MoreDon't Take Grinding For Granted
Until the global economy scenario changes, the immediate future for subcontracting job shops in developed countries may look bleak.
Read MoreA Talk With Index’s President
Recently, I was able to catch up with Olaf Tessarzyk, the busy president and CEO of Index Corporation, at the company’s U.S. headquarters in Noblesville, Indiana.
Read MoreKey U.S. Markets Need Parts
It’s pleasant to have a feeling of hopefulness at last after the dark days of the last few years. The American psyche was severely affected by 9/11, which devastated the financial markets and the economy in general. Not to say there isn’t that lingering sense of hurt, anger and fear. There is. But we are healing in spite of it and moving on.
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