Chris Koepfer

Chris Koepfer Editor Emeritus

Near-Miss Reports Help Plant Safety

Bremen Castings has taken a proactive course to preempt accidents in its gray and ductile iron foundry and precision machine shop operation

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We're Blogging. It's Time

Delivering relevant content to a targeted audience is and has always been the job description of a trade magazine editor.

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Additive Manufacturing Resource

It seems that additive manufacturing, aka 3D printing and rapid prototyping, is receiving a lot of attention of late.

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Sandvik Coromant 'Tools Up' Workshops for Warriors

The company is donating $40,000 worth of metal-cutting tools to Workshops for Warriors, which is a San Diego based not-profit organization dedicated to providing free job training, certification and placement for veterans.

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Hyundai WIA Partners with Michael Waltrip Racing

The rules for the 2013 racing season are undergoing significant changes and Michael Waltrip Racing (MWR) has partnered with Hyundai WIA to rapidly respond to the NASCAR Sprint Series changes for 2013.

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Let Our Voices Be Heard Again

As we watch and listen and read about the avoidance of the fiscal cliff followed almost immediately by the impending debt ceiling crisis, I’m reminded of Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day.

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PM's Blog is not Social, It's Business

Social media is all the rage. However, silly words like tweet, friending and blog tend to mask the potential usefulness of these Internet tools for the more serious business of business.

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Road Trip to Gnutti Transfer

With Production Machining’s focus on the markets Gnutti is looking at, it was logical for me to go and see what this company was about. So off I went.

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Automation

Running Remotely

Everybody talks about unattended machining operations and many have implemented it in varying degrees. Since day one, this Dayton, Ohio shop has never operated any other way.

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Let the Salesmen In

There may be an asset that you are overlooking; one that might be sitting in your lobby on any given day. Yes, that would be the manufacturing salesperson.

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Training Soldiers for a Lifetime

Students in the U.S. Army Ordinance School’s Allied Training Specialist Course are learning machining and welding—skills that will help them bridge the gap between active service and eventual separation from the military.

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Passing the Baton

Parenting involves raising our children. When we help our co-workers, we call it mentoring. In many ways, these two kinds of teaching are similar.

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