Miles Free Director of Industry Affairs, PMPA
The Meaning of Cold Work and Steel Parts
Cold work is defined as the plastic deformation of a metal below its re-crystallization temperature. The steel bars we machine are typically cold drawn (cold worked).
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A Bachelor’s Degree: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Cost?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics completed a study on unemployment among recent college grads.
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Plenty of Manufacturing Jobs Listed Online and at Community Colleges
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Precision Machining Industry in Numbers
We completed our 2013 Business Forecast Report, a compilation of markets served by our industry as measured by percent of supplier dollars, and shipments versus forecast for the past couple of years, a forecast consolidating all respondents’ input on a market by market basis, and a look at markets served by size of shop.
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Catch Them if You Can: Obsolete Specifications
The time to catch an obsolete specification is during contract review, before there are commitments to material and/or sunk costs of material, production and inspection.
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Shop Safety: A Dozen Indicators to Score Your Shop
As a manufacturing guy, I have spent a lot of time in shops in many industries.
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Manufacturing Offers Debt-Free Schooling
Going forward, we see manufacturing jobs returning to North America, as energy prices increase for the rest of the world.
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Maximize What We Can Produce With What We Have
Training assures our shops will be sustainable and that all are operating at their highest and best use. Scheduling does that for all the resources in our shops in light of market demand.
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Setup Reduction Program Offers 8 Positive Results
Setup reduction is the one discipline that every precision machining shop must master.
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More Thoughts on the Skilled Worker Shortage
Thoughts on Why We Face the Skilled Worker Shortage
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Why Tolerance is Minus on Bars for Machining
Bars are held to the minus side of each nominal dimension to ensure that they can pass through the nominal size hole, whether it be a bushing, pulley, gear, collet, support bearing or any similar application.
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Craftsman's Cribsheet: Drilling Problem Checklist
Problems with drills and hole-making are getting even more frequent as more jobs are being run in non-free-machining steels.
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