Miles Free Director of Industry Affairs, PMPA
Craftsman's Cribsheet: Unleaded Brass for Plumbing Use
Laws have outlawed the provision of plumbing systems containing significant amounts of lead.
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Sometimes It’s the Steel
Sometimes it can be the steel. Frustratingly, because it came in exactly as you asked. Ask better.
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Craftsman's Cribsheet: Contract Review — Thought Starters
An effective contract review process can effectively manage risk for all parties.
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How Do We Fix American Manufacturing?
In America, many have lost sight of the fact that the object of the act of manufacturing is not merely the generation of maximum profit, but instead the creation of value.
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Legacy Policies are Dead. Long Live the New Policies!
Growing up, I learned that necessity is the mother of invention. During the recent COVID-19 crisis, many of us found out that necessity is indeed a cruel mother.
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Effective Associating — Better Together
Where do you go to make sense of the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity that can overwhelm your ability to manage your shop?
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W.H. Bagshaw Co. — 150 Years of Precision Machining, Manufacturing Careers, Families and the Community
What lessons can we learn from a precision manufacturing company that has thrived its way through the past three industrial revolutions?
Read MoreOSHA Inspection Priorities Update 2019-2020
Late in 2019 OSHA revised its inspection priority weighting system.
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PMPA Advocacy and Your Bottom Line
Your return on investment for PMPA’s Advocacy efforts can be seen on the increased depreciation and credits taken on capital equipment purchases, on the 100% tariffs that were avoided on the European-sourced copper and brass products that you machine and on the repeal of the 2.3% Medical Device Tax, the 1.9% Health Insurance Tax, and the 40% Cadillac Excise Tax on health care plans.
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Workforce Development—Training Shows How
To expand on his “Workforce Development—What We Can Do Better” article, Miles Free explains the Who, What, Where, When, Why, How and How Many of one of the four upskilling tools—training.
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Workforce Development: What We Can Do Better
The causes of our workforce issues may be out of our hands, but there are definitely steps we can take to improve our shop’s response to the issue.
Read MoreWhere Steel Properties Come From
The properties of the steel materials we machine in our shops are the result of a complex interplay between chemical composition, developed by hot and cold work, and further controlled by various thermal treatments to develop microstructures.
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