Author: Miles Free

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Dodd Frank Section 1502 Conflict Minerals Guidance for Machine Shops
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PMPA staff has prepared a Conflict Minerals compliance guide for our members based on our analysis and understanding of the SEC’s final rule. Our report provides 5 questions to help you make sense of and formulate your reply to each job and request for documentation from your customers for Conflict Mineral Status. Finally, our document provides both the means to determine and suggested language to warrant that your product is “DRC Conflict Free” to your customer.

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Machining Economics- Production Rate
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A relationship exists between the cutting speed and the cost per piece. Between the minimum total cost and the minimum time per piece is a high efficiency machining range. If you have plenty of open capacity, you should aim for minimum part cost. Minimum time per piece usually occurs at higher speeds than minimum cost, providing higher operating efficiency.

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Machining Economics 4 Factors
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The economics of precision machining can be understood with just 4 factors- Machining Cost, Material Cost, Tool Cost, and Cost of Non-productive Time (Set-up Costs). Since machining and tool costs vary with the speed of operation, a minimum total cost occurs at a definite set of conditions for material, tooling and operating speed.

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Pi Day 2013 and Student Engagement
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Pi day, is not just about the Pi(e), as much as it can be about showing relevance of math and integrating their skills and engaging students differently.

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Cold Work And Steel Parts
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Cold work is an important factor in the production and successful fabrication of our precision machined products. Cold work is defined, explained, and coldworking processes identified.

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Fraudsters on LinkedIn and Your Brand
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Honesty, integrity, being genuine. This is what makes successful relationships in the business world and on line. If you can lie about who you are, why would I want to do business with you? What about your brand? Are you “disguised” as Lena ******* on line?

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Bachelor’s Degree Cost and Benefits
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A bachelor’s degree is a good investment, except when it doesn’t lead to a job. Latest report from BLS suggests that almost 15% of recent college graduates are not in the workforce, and that another 12.6% of recent college grads are unemployed. Middle- and lower-income families might be better served by being strategic and aiming for an associate or online degree combined with some sort of targeted vocational program.

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Unemployment Rate Real Story- People Stopped Looking for Work
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The actual unemployment rate (U-6) is 14.2%. The media ignores half the unemployed because the U-3 indicator is tied to the still falling labor participation rate.

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Harley Davidson to Export Fat Boys To India
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Each exported Harley Davidson motorcycle represents the export of a number of precision machined components.

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Manufacturing Jobs Available Right Now!
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There are immediate jobs for people with skills in manufacturing today. You can get the skills in just a couple of semesters at your local community college.

Where they have plenty of job openings posted as you can see in our video.

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