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Parts Cleaning

An Opportunity for Building a Strong Community

The new Manufacturing Cleaning Association brings the parts cleaning industry together to work toward a common goal of building relationships.

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CNC Machine Shops: Help Production Machining Help You

While our magazine’s editors keep up with CNC machining industry trends and technology, we remain open to hearing about article topics that you feel will help your business grow and become more efficient. Your feedback is welcome.

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Leadership Problems in a Digital Age

Business leaders may need to help employees develop communication skills which may be lacking due to the human disconnect created by the 21st-century digital age.

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Basics

Filmic/Chemical Cleanliness Becoming Just as Important as Particulate Cleanliness

Glued, sealed, welded and coated parts require clean, adherent surfaces in addition to specified particulate cleanliness. This article offers advice on how to clean these parts effectively. 

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Index Contracts in September After a Promising August

All components report lower readings after August expansion.

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On Race and Manufacturing

Racial inequality is everyone’s problem and we don’t have to agree on all of the answers in order to get started on some of them.

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Economic Outlook Positive for Medical, Defense Industries

This economic outlook from ITR Economics includes predictions of how well certain manufacturing sectors will do in the foreseeable future, as well as advice on making investments and using low interest rates to your advantage.  

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Create a Virtual Tour of Your Shop

Open houses and tours are techniques leading CNC machine shops use to market their operations to prospective new customers and new hires. It’s also possible to do this digitally like Roush Yates Manufacturing Solutions has, which is helpful in these strange days of social distancing.

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Parts Cleaning

Opportunity for More Efficient Productivity

Difficult times teach us to create workarounds that are often more efficient than our previous processes. This is true for the parts cleaning industry and the Parts Cleaning Conference committee. 

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Shining Light on New Machining Technology

Equipment and software that can enable precision CNC machine shops to grow and become more efficient continue to be developed.

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