Miles Free Director of Industry Affairs, PMPA
Using Frequency of Occurrence to Find Root Cause
When you tie frequency of occurrence numbers back to the process, you can gain some insight into what may be the root cause.
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Craftsman's Cribsheet: OSHA Global Harmonized System Hazard Communication Standard Fact Sheet
OSHA announced on March 20, 2012, a final rule updating OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard to align with the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals.
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PMPA: Your Business Assurance
With the cost of PMPA dues less than one quarter of a percent of your company’s sales, your dues purchase of PMPA assurance is money well spent to assure your business sustainability and provide you with personal peace of mind.
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What is Manufacturing?
If you don’t actually make something, you aren’t really a manufacturer. If you don’t make it here, how can you count it here?
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Most Important Tool is the 5 Inches Between the Ears
We spend too much time teaching our employees to "use the tools of the trade" rather than "the tool 5 inches between the ears"--the ultimate tool we’re born with and have forgotten how to use.
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Correct Handling Preserves Straightness
Straightness is critical for holding position and tolerances on today’s highly engineered medical, aerospace, automotive and electronic parts.
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What Gives Your Shop Traction?
Technology, knowledge, staff capabilities and scale are four determinants of our shop's traction.
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5 Buyer Decisions That Increase Costs
These five factors can unnecessarily add costs or delays to a precision machined part: small order quantities, material selection, special diameter holes, close tolerances, unnecessarily fine surface finish.
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Actually, Skills Do Pay the Bills
Skills are what is demanded, and are in short supply. Higher wages are determined by the value add of the skills obtained, and held in check by low cost competitors across the globe.
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Manufacturing Jobs - What You Need (and Want) to Know
Four of the top five manufacturing sectors by added employment in 2012 were key markets served by precision machining; transportation equipment, motor vehicles and parts, fabricated metal products, machinery. Learn why a career in manufacturing may be your best bet in 2013.
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Craftsman's Cribsheet: Why Service Trumps Quality and Price
In the precision machining business, nobody sets up their machines based on the quality or price of raw material/barstock.
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