Published March 2011
By PMPA Staff
Grow the skills of your technical, quality and management personnel. PMPA’s Technical Program Committee has designed a program that will continue the world-class training opportunities of five decades of technical conferences.
Published September 2021 By Carli Kistler-Miller According to an extensive study in 2019 by the Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, a conclusive link between happiness and productivity was found — happy workers are 13% more productive. VIEW ARTICLE
PMPA Business Trends May 2023 PMPA’s May Business Trends report shows the sales this year to be midway between calendar year 2021 and 2022 performance. The Sales index is up 10 points or 7.5 percent over April, 2023. We are optimistic that our shops can sustain this level of performance for the balance of…
Claiming savings that doesn’t really exist, Ignoring hidden costs like fringe benefits or maintenance expense, Using estimates from substantially different rates of work, and ignoring the unquantifiable human factorsbecause you want to make the change happen are four mistakes commonly made when making engineering or process changes.
Recorded: May 3, 2022 at National Technical Conference in Milwaukee, WI. Speakers: Kevin Johnson, Fischer Special Tool Brandon Buckhout (filling in for Osny Fabricio, Balzers) Who would benefit: Setup, Machinists, Estimators, Engineers, Foremen, Leadmen, Operators Experience track: Mastery Download FISCHER Special Tooling Presentation Download Oerlikon Balzers Presentation ACCESS Access grants unlimited online streaming. Copyright…
Published June 2020 By Miles Free III 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. VIEW ARTICLE
FP Flash Survey Reveals That Most Employers Continue to Refrain From Mandating COVID-19 Vaccine But Vast Majority Encouraging It It appears an overwhelming number of employers are not mandating their employees receive the COVID-19 vaccine – more than four in five – but are instead encouraging their workforce to get inoculated from the virus….