Miles Free Director of Industry Affairs, PMPA
Using PMPA Business Trends Report to Understand Your Business
Here are a few takeaways from the PMPA March 2016 Business Trends Report.
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PMPA Political Action: What’s at Stake for Your Business?
PMPA is involved and working to minimize their negative impact on your shop. Here is a quick review of a few of them.
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Some OEM Customers Lack Insight into Market Demand
Lousy forecasting by some OEM customers beats lean and JIT every time, leaving the OEM’s supply chain bloated with inventory and starving for releases.
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Why Tool Life Can Vary: Carbon and Alloy Steels
Despite the use of our best technology and our efforts to control our processes, tool life can vary when machining carbon and alloy steels.
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Unknown Knowns: Rumsfeld Missed One–Will You?
What is your plan for harvesting the ‘unknown knowns’ so that your team and your culture can continue to thrive?
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Upset Testing for Steel
An “upset” can be performed to determine how the steel will perform under compressive load.
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A Member’s View of a PMPA Washington, D.C. Trip
Mike Reader, president of Precision Plus, shares his take on PMPA’s recent two-day Capitol Hill fly-in.
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Getting the Most out of Drills in your Shop
The three keys are keeping the drill short, getting the feed rate right and replacing the drill on schedule before it dulls.
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Plan, Do, Study, Adjust: The Engine of Continuous Improvement
“The organization shall continually improve the effectiveness of the quality management system through the use of the quality policy, quality objectives, audit results, analysis of data, corrective and preventive action, and management review.”
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Stable Process, Stable Profits
The role of stable processes to provide profitability in our high-mix/high-volume shops is often overlooked.
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Automate to Eliminate Non-Value-Added Labor
Automation should free up employees to add even more, higher value-added items to your operations.
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Material Influences on the Weldability of Carbon Steel
Carbon equivalents of 0.35 or less are safe to weld without any pre-weld or post-weld heat treatments required. At higher carbon levels, steels may require either pre- or post-weld heat treatment in order to prevent stress buildup and weld cracking.
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