There is no ROI on any of your shops’ equipment if your ablity to process chips is stopped because your chip processing system is non-functional due to a foreseeable and preventable wear failure.
Here are 6 wear abatement strategies for the world of high abrasion, high impact, 60-G force chip wringing and fluid recovery:
The Precision Machined Products Association (PMPA) has partnered with The Manufacturing Institute to expand Right Skills Now, a fast-track machining training program aligned to the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)-Endorsed Manufacturing Skills Certification System.
Eight reasons to stress relieve cold drawn steel bars are listed.
Additive manufacturing may not be a commercial process yet for high volumes of precision parts. But you can’t deny that it is quite capable of making some serious art in metal.
Here are seven tips from Bernard Martin on how to optimize your profile on LinkedIn. This is important because this is how you are seen online professionally these days.
The housing industry seems to be making slow but steady gains while manufacturing seems to be slowing. PMPA’s Business Trends Index for August is up 6 points to 117 from 111 in July, but shipments are at a level just 93% of same time last year. Our industry shows shipments up 4 % year to date. Our index is contrary to the Fed’s IP numbers for August. The Fed reported that Industrial Production fell 1.2% in August after having risen after having risen 0.5% in July. We see demand as holding on and our shops report that they continue to “hold their own.”
•Emergency response
•Reports and case management
•Interrupted operations
•Lost revenue
•Cost of damage
are the five common cost elements of workplace injuries.
The idea of one narrative for success- go to college and get a good paying job- is no longer a workable one. The majority of unemployed people today have some college. But at the International Machine Tool Show in Chicago last week, The epicenter of world manufacturing at that moment in time, Every one I met- whether exhibitor or attendee- told me that their company was constrained by a lack of talent. They couldn’t find and were looking hard for people for their manufacturing plants.
Both Insdustrial production and Capacity utilization fell for August 2012. The direction of revised numbers for prior months was also negative. Perhaps it is time to rethink our optimism…
In eight short years over a third of your workforce will be over the age of 55.