It is the love for our craft that helps the precision machinists at Cox Manufacturing Company in SanAntonio Texas produce jewlery like parts – that you wear inside your body. HAppy Valentines Day from PMPASpeakingOfPrecision
Training assures our shops will be sustainable and that all are operating at their highest and best use. Scheduling does that for all the resources in our shops in light of market demand.
Here are 10 quick points to assess why your closing percentage isn’t what you would like it to be … (hint, it’s probably not your price…)
Women hold a number of vital and challenging roles in manufacturing at their companies. 122 were recognized by the Manufacturing Institute for their leadership in Science, Technology, Engineering and Production,
The ISM PMI Composite Index showws a modest expansion in January 2013. all components of the index were in positive territory.
Setup Reduction is the one essential skill to master if your shop is to be sustainable. PMPA offers the Vanamatic and Micron Manufacturing Lean Case Studies to help you convince your team that this can be done by showing you how they did it.
Dave Bradford thinks that Training is just too important to leave up to invisible hands.
Don Ake says that as the nature of being unemployed has changed, so has the usefulness of the traditional U-3 measure of unemployment.
The line shafting that used to provide power to the machines in the earliest machine shops are the reason that today’s cold finished bars are toleranced all toerance to the minus side…
Despite a great start for sales in the industry at the beginning of the year, the special causes of the uncertainty leading up to the election and the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ took the wind out of our sales, resulting in PMPA’s 2012 Business Trends Index barely equalling that of 2011.