April Shipments, Despite Correction, Give Positive Outlook for Shipments
If your sales fell in April and you are worried, PMPA’s Business Trends Report can help you recalibrate.
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April Shipments, Despite Correction, Give Positive Outlook for Shipments
If your sales fell in April and you are worried, PMPA’s Business Trends Report can help you recalibrate.
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Employment Population Ratio- Good News
For the first time sine February 2009 the Employment- Population Ratio exceeds 60%.
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Thank You to My Readers
We never really thought we’d get to 1 million views when we started our blog. Thanks to readers like you, we did!
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Being Bullish on Our Business is No Bull!
The strength of current economic indicators make a bear philosophy for Manufacturing untenable.
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Decarburization and Your Precision Machine Shop
Decarburization is a clue that can help us pinpoint when in the steel making and processing history that defect was created.
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Stress Cracks in Steel Bar Products.
Stress cracks are transverse cracks in steel products as a result of exceeding the yield strength locally at the temperature of crack formation. Typically excessive straightening or bending loads are the cause during steel processing.
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Feels like January 2012-The January 2017 PMPA Business Trends Up 24% Over December 2016
PMPA’s January Business Trends data and sentiment indicators make a strong case for Business Optimism in the months ahead.
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Strong Optimism Arrives in January ISM-PMI
Strongly Optimistic for Precision Machining in First Quarter 2017 according to PMPA Business Trends forecast and ISM PMI January numbers.
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Precision Machining Industry 2017 Forecast- Strongly Positive
Net Sales outlook for precision machined products exploded in this month’s survey with fifty-four percent of respondents expecting sales to increase in the first three months of 2017. We are strongly bullish on Precision Machining in 2017.