Miles Free Director of Industry Affairs, PMPA

22 May 2017

Expand Your Focus from Products to Service

Why shouldn’t we focus on the products that we make instead of the products we sell? After all, that’s what our customers buy from us, right?

18 Apr 2017

Stress Cracks in Steel Bar Products

Micro-examination can help determine crack origin by noting orientation, intergranular nature, presence of scale, presence of subscale, and additional microstructural characteristics can reveal the thermal history of heating and cooling at the crack location.

13 Apr 2017

12 Cardinal Rules for Shop Safety

Here are 12 simple rules to help eliminate accidents and injuries in the workplace.

13 Apr 2017

What you Need to Change to Thrive in Great Times

What keeps us afloat in bad times might prevent us from thriving in better times.

16 Mar 2017

Transitioning to Unleaded Brass: Impacts on the Precision Machined Products Industry

Anything that reduces or eliminates our recovery of brass scrap dollars is a serious threat to our businesses.

21 Feb 2017

Central Bursts, Chevroning in Cold-Drawn and Extruded Steels

The compressive stresses of cold working can result in failures by shear along planes 45 degrees to the applied stress.

26 Jan 2017

RoHS Exemptions Delayed Again in EU

According to Electronics Industry Portal I-Connect007, the EU is unlikely to publish the RoHS exemptions for lead any time soon. The EU Commission is only now in the process of preparing draft legislation to be sent to the member states for consideration.

19 Jan 2017

Lockout Tagout: What Management Needs to do for Periodic Inspection

Providing lockout/tagout devices, ensuring that equipment is capable of being locked out and tagged out are other management responsibilities and are typically well in hand in the shops I visit.

Basics 21 Nov 2016

Ductility as Measured by Tensile Testing

In this article, I will describe how to measure ductility and use it to predict behavior based on values reported on certs and test reports.

21 Nov 2016

Using Standard Work to Best Serve Customers

At UPS, the standard work discipline of no left turns delivers results to the bottom line, while better meeting customer demand, increasing the safety of drivers and the public and reducing the resources used.