Congratulations to the Team at NIMS and its sponsoring partners as NIMS sets a new record for credentials issued in a year – 21,420, up 20% over 2014. Making a difference as they help to make a globally competitive skilled workforce.
: Underwhelming and underperforming, but we did eke out almost a percent of growth last year. PMPA’s Index of Sales of Precision Machined Products finished at 121 for the year, virtually the same as last year’s 120, under- performing the sluggish growth of manufacturing sector (2%) the year. The Index of Sales for the month…
Today our growth is limited by our inability to acquire skilled workers. In the last recession, we were held back by lack of demand for our customer’s end products. Today, we cannot find the skilled people that we require to operate new high tech equipment that is needed to make the high precision parts we…
The paradox that our operators face daily is they often need to choose between “Make it work,” versus “Make it right.”
The good news from this report would seem to be that the broad economy continues to expand, even if Manufacturing is not.
Bolted joints are key to many of our most critical technologies and infrastructure. How to retain bolted joint integrity in the face of vibration and other challenges is clearly explained in these videos.
Seasonality explains our drop in Sales this November, as it does every year. The November 2015 PMPA Business Trends Report Sales Index came in at 108, down 11 points from October, and virtually at the 12 month moving average of 108.8. The indicators that declined, Sales Index, Hours of First Shift Scheduled, and sentiment for Employment…
The Institute for Supply Management Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector dropped to 48.6 in November from an October reading of 50.1. The reading, below 50% indicates contraction. This month’s reading was the lowest since the end of the Great Recession in June 2009. The employment index was at 51.3%, up from 47.6%…
“The growth and passion I have seen in in manufacturing education and credentialing in just a short time has been amazing. NIMS is helping to create a highly skilled, globally competitive, credentialed workforce.
Seams are longitudinal crevices that are tight or even closed at the surface, but are not welded shut. They are close to radial in orientation and can originate in steelmaking, primary rolling, or on the bar or rod mill.”– AISI Technical Committee on Rod and Bar Mills, Detection, Classification, and Elimination of Rod and Bar Surface…