PM Blog
Craftsman's Cribsheet: Honing and Lapping — Special Finish Processes
Cribsheet provided by PMPA member Pioneer Service Inc., Addison, Illinois
Read More
Beware of False Unemployment Claims Filed with Your Information
False unemployment claims are a reality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is a quick reference as to what to look for and how to handle it if a false unemployment claim is filed with your name.
Read More
Why You Should Consider Standard Work
Standard work is a means to reduce the number of decisions that your performers need to make in order to ensure that compliant parts are produced.
Read More
5 Benefits to In-House Grinding
This machine shop’s in-house grinding capabilities offer many advantages for itself and for its customers, including time and cost savings.
Read More
On Race and Manufacturing
Racial inequality is everyone’s problem and we don’t have to agree on all of the answers in order to get started on some of them.
Read More
Economic Outlook Positive for Medical, Defense Industries
This economic outlook from ITR Economics includes predictions of how well certain manufacturing sectors will do in the foreseeable future, as well as advice on making investments and using low interest rates to your advantage.
Read More
Create a Virtual Tour of Your Shop
Open houses and tours are techniques leading CNC machine shops use to market their operations to prospective new customers and new hires. It’s also possible to do this digitally like Roush Yates Manufacturing Solutions has, which is helpful in these strange days of social distancing.
Watch
Fast Fixturing for Inspection and Laser Marking
The versatility of the Inspection Arsenal and Laser Arsenal modular fixture plate systems enables fixturing to be built on the individual grid plates. The plates can be easily removed from the magnetic docking rail when not needed.
Read More
Chip-Collection Problem Solver Becomes Product Line
A Wisconsin contract manufacturer created a tilting chip hopper that can be used with a forklift for one-person emptying of scrap material. It has since become a product available to other companies.
Read More
The “Spark” Starts Now
IMTS Spark, which begins today and runs through March 2021, offers thousands of manufacturer exhibitor showrooms, hundreds of events and a variety of collaboration opportunities.
Read More
5 Topics for Machine Shop Training
These five safety topics should be a focus for your shop’s safety training in 2020, according to Miles Free, director of industry affairs, Precision Machined Products Association (PMPA).
Read More
Parts Cleaning Conference Webinar Series Begins Oct. 7
The 2020 Parts Cleaning Conference educates the industry with a webinar series, offering five presentations from leading manufacturing cleaning companies. Find out how to register.
Read More
