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Machine Shop Owners, Keep Your Eye on Your Equity

The basis of competition is evolving, and owners are strongly encouraged to develop a strategy that is equity-focused, not sales-focused. 

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Parts Cleaning

Precision Machining Technology Review December 2021: Parts Cleaning

Production Machining’s Parts Cleaning Showcase includes CTG, Kyzen, Ecoclean, Renegade, Cortec and Solvent Kleene.

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Digital Demos

Lean Transfer Machine PICCOLA

PICCOLA CNC Lean transfer machine, extremely flexible and productive, able to perform boring, milling, threading, turning operations with static or rotating part. This Machine configuration can be up to 56 units with 3 CNC axes on three ways (vertical from the top, the bottom and radial). (Sponsored)

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What Would You Notice in Someone Else’s Shop?

If you’re an owner or manager of a CNC machine shop, do you get to visit other shops often? And, if so, what do you keep an eye out for?

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Supply Chain Management Can Work for You

A VMI program can reduce cost and also increase speed to market by eliminating the additional time needed to move material from vendor to vendor.

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Production Machining’s December 2021 News Highlights

Precision machining is looking forward with new acquisitions and new names, while also looking back to honor industry trailblazers as we head into the New Year. The forecast for this essential industry is looking bright in 2022.  

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Precision Machining Index Up on the Return of Employees

Hiring activity lifts overall index.

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Workholding

Smart Workholding Device Measures and Monitors

Sensor and IIoT technology combine to enable these chucks and mandrels to automatically monitor workholding parameters and measure part features to ensure process stability.  

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Rising Inflation, Disrupted Supply Chains and a Labor Shortage Affect Manufacturing

In 2021, supply chain disruption and rising inflation hit the domestic economy, limiting manufacturing production. These two issues will remain significant factors in 2022.

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4 Leadership Coaching Skills That’ll Make You a Great Leader

Here are some essential coaching skills to help elevate your leadership to the next level.  

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Filling the Tall Order of Inventory Management

Rable Machine continues to refine the inventory management services the shop offers its top customers. It has found that providing these services — something other shops can’t or won’t do — makes it more of a partner with those customers, rather just a vendor.

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Parts Cleaning

Video Tech Brief: The Ins and Outs of an Aqueous Parts Cleaner

Ecoclean’s Director of Sales Sandro Siminovich describes how the company’s EcoCwave single-chamber parts cleaning system operates. Further information in the article details the unit’s automated process monitoring system.

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