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Uncertainty and Change in 2020
Procrastinating to avoid change is always rooted in some form of fear.
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Emerging Leader Strives to be an Ambassador for the Trade
“When we have shop tours for students and instructors, sharing the company’s journey and sharing my experiences over time is important,” says Clay Adcock, production manager at Custom Tool and a 2020 Emerging Leader.
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Brief Virtual Sessions Answer Parts Cleaning Questions
Kyzen Corp. is offering a series of 15-minute sessions, called Tech 2 Tech, that answers common cleaning questions heard in the metal finishing and electronic assembly industries.
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Cobots Gain Ability to Sort and Measure
New tooling that includes a precision robotic caliper extends the applicability of collaborative robots to perform sorting and measuring small parts.
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Use Your Machine Shop Management System as a Sales Tool
Why not leverage an effective shop management system for your sales/marketing advantage in today’s competitive market?
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Role Model Leads Shop to New Growth
Under Travis Donaldson’s leadership, Donmac Precision Machining Inc. has made extensive improvements, including streamlining its production. Read about this 2020 Production Machining Emerging Leader’s other accomplishments here.
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Let Them Move the Table
Empower your employees to make a lot of little changes and improvements to make their job in your machine shop easier. Small increments of improved efficiency add up quickly.
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Gardner Establishes Manufacturing Cleaning Association
This association’s mission is to create a community of cleaning industry professionals that can learn from each other, and establish and hold strict industrial standards while networking, sharing and learning from eachother.
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Dealing with Failed Cleanliness Limits
Markus Rossler, vice president, Glaeser Inc., offers guidelines for ensuring parts cleaning standards.
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Leader Modernizes Company with New Technology and Processes
In Gary Sweeney’s 10 years with Everett Industries, this 2020 Production Machining Emerging Leader has taken organically developed engineering and product development systems and transformed them into scalable, reliable, efficient methods.
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Improve Energy Savings and Efficiency with Vector Kinematics
The rocking, rotational nozzle movement performed by vector kinematics spray cleaning technology combined with temperature and cleaning additives provides an effective, fast and economical parts cleaning process.
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Automated Manufacturing in the U.S. Makes for a Fitting Process
An Australian company has been able to speed delivery of its popular plumbing products to U.S. customers by adding machining and assembly cells to produce brass fittings in Alabama.
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