Our condolences to everyone at Apple on the loss of Visionary in Chief and Denter of the Universe Steve Jobs.
We are grateful for Steve’s exemplary commitment to design and technical excellence.
One person can make a difference.
Steve Jobs did.
Resulfurized steels reduce cost to manufacture AND the design’s Charpy impact strength. If a steel grade machines well- it probably has miserable charpy impact properties. Materials should be selected on the basis of complying with design requirements, not jus tlow cost to manufacture.
“When machinists think that there is a problem with the material that they are trying to cut, if the cutoff tool is fine but another tool is not, it’s probably not the material.”
6 reasons not to wear gloves while working on grinders and grinding machines:
•Amputations
•General duty of employer to provide a workplace free of recognized hazards
•Gloves can catch on rotating equipment and pull operators hands into the equipment
•Rotation of grinding wheels is at high RPM’s
•Operator cannot get hand out of glove when it catches
•Equipment horsepower and machine material properties exceed those of the operators flesh
Why doesn’t the cost of the investment needed to make a pound of bread or a pound of steel better correlate with the finished price of these?
Scarier than a Stephen King Novel, this free 12 page pdf from NAM lays out the dramatic impacts of the perfect storm of sequestration, federal spending cuts, and new taxes on our manufacturing businesses. Buckle up!Download this to your iPad or e-reader for that plane ride home…
In case you were wondering how well the US Department of Commerce is taking care of the exclusion requests by American Metalworking companies, here’s some data. Requests for exclusions for both steel and aluminum have less than a half of a percent chance of being approved- 0.35% for steel and 0.47% for aluminum. Where…