Miles Free Director of Industry Affairs, PMPA
PMPA Member C. Thorrez Industries Celebrates 100 Years of Success
The story of C. Thorrez Industries began in 1912 when Mr. Thorrez’s grandfather left his life as a farmer and a peasant in West Flanders, Belgium, and moved to Jackson, Michigan.
Read MoreCraftsman's Cribsheet: Five More Must-Do Safety Contacts to Start The New Year
Here are five mandatory safety contacts to assure getting your team’s safety training off to a good start in 2019.
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Effective Associating Advocacy to Advance our Members
PMPA’s mission is to provide information, advocacy and networking opportunities that advance our members.
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NTC 2019: A Crossroads of Talent and Technology
What two words summarize our view of our businesses? In my experience with visiting the member companies of the PMPA, I would suggest those two words would be “talent and technology.”
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Craftsman’s Cribsheet Number 73: 5 Must-Do Safety Contacts to Start the New Year
These five regulations are applicable to our shops and make a great logical foundation for getting 2019’s safety training off to a good start.
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Precision Machining Industry Prognostications: How’d We Do?
Before we make predictions for the coming year, perhaps a brief review of what we thought was ahead last year might be in order.
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Understanding Steel Material Specifications on New Jobs
An important aspects of quoting and running a new job is understanding the specifications of the material to be machined.
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Change in Demand: Time to Change Your Thinking
According to our analysis of the PMPA Business Trends Sales Index, the demand for our products has shifted steadily upwards in the market.
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Letter to a New Machinist
Machinists are the people who make things, and when you think about it, our lives today would be miserable without the things that machinists make.
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Craftman's Cribsheet Number 68: Ten Important Things to Know Before Working as a CNC Machinist
The machinist is a bag of water, and the tools and workpieces are harder and sharper.
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Seduction or Intention: Choosing Your Time Wisely at IMTS
PMPA’s latest “Business Trends Report” shows that shops are busy working overtime and juggling their schedules to produce the almost unprecedented demand for components from our customers.
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CRAFTSMAN’S CRIBSHEET NUMBER 67: Dimensional Contraction of 17-4 PH Stainless Steel
The mechanical properties of 17-4 PH must be fully developed by age hardening from Condition A in order to reduce risk of failure and to take full advantage of the material’s capabilities. 17-4 PH is a martensitic precipitation hardening (age hardening) stainless steel that can provide both high strength and excellent corrosion resistance.
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