Published August 2006
By PMPA Staff
When a vocational school in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, recently found itself without a CNC lathe, a number of PMPA members and non-members came to the rescue.
“What we are seeing really is just another interglacial phase within our big icehouse climate.” Dismissing political calls for a global effort to reverse climate change, she said, “It’s really farcical because the climate has been changing constantly… What we should do is be more aware of the fact that it is changing and that we should be ready to adapt to the change.”
Bar Straightness Calculation Wednesday January 31, 2007 Bar straightness tolerance varies by diameter, grade, and thermal treatment. The determination of compliance of a bar’s straightness to the applicable standard is an easily solved geometry problem. The formula for determining max allowable deviation of straightness for each tolerance class is given above each column on the…
Recorded: April 29, 2024 at National Technical Conference in Cincinnati, OH. Speaker: Joel Rutzen, SPC Innovations Who would benefit: engineer, estimator, setup, machinist, operator Experience track: Mastery Description Learn how using synchronous-driven and other advanced attachments can reduce secondary operations and work with difficult materials on conventional multi-spindle automatic machines. ACCESS Access grants unlimited…
9 Online Resources from the FDA for prospective Medical Device Manufacturers are provided here.
Published November 2016 By Miles Free III This year’s Manufacturing Day is officially behind us, but it’s never too early to start the conversation on how to make next year’s even better. VIEW ARTICLE
PMPA Business Trends February 2021 Our performance and sentiment indicators this month justify our optimism about the markets and employment prospects for our precision machining industry in 2021. The six- month trend of steady sales in our index shows that we are most likely being constrained by lack of supply and workers. We are…