Always use 16% minimum chrome containing stainless steels for food contact to minimize the reaction of zinc with your foods. The choice of materials for food applications is critical if we are not to poison someone.
The BLS data shows now is the perfect time to start your career in manufacturing.
Five good reasons why we’re bullish on Prospects for precision machining industry for 2012.
We are pleased to see the pipeline for manufacturing talent being primed by AWT, Lakeland Community College, and the local manufacturers who sponsored the student robotics teams.
The economy is growing too slowly for it to be considered robust-adverse developments in four areas could derail the recovery.
1.China
2.Dodd Frank Regulations
3.EU
4.U.S. Student Loans
New Confocal Microscope with mesofocus lens will speed development in medicine; PMPA members share the research community’s “ethos of technical innovation with universal impact.”
If the just wrapped up PMPA National Technical Conference held over the weekend in Wheeling, Illinois on Chicago’s North Side is any indication, Precision Machining is doing very well these days.
•Over 420 people in total attended, over 100 of the attendees were attending our conference for the first time.
•More than 160 companies sent people who were actively involved and networking.
•Technical, management, quality, and certification programs gave everyone take home value to make their shops more competitive and sustainable.
Robotic Safety is becoming increasingly important as the use of robots and robotic systems increases in our shops. Resources and latest development in robotics safety standards are provided in this post.
The March 31st explosion at Evonik Industries in Marl, Germany is likely to have the same effect on worldwide automotive production as last year’s Tsunami and reactor accidents in Japan. The loss to society will be the sum of the costs of the damages at the plant that was destroyed, as well as the lost wages of workers who will NOT be building autos due to this accident, and the increased price paid by buyers who must pay the price demanded because they need to replace their car. Plus the cost of a gazillion PPAP’s and material trials for the substitution / replacement of Nylon 12, knowing the automotive industy’s love of and addiction to documentation. Instead of minimizing stock at each and every inventory in the supply chain discretely, perhaps it is time for the “businessmen” to do some supply chain contingency planning to assure that adequate stocks are distributed throughout the supply chain to mitigate the possibility of a single source failure.
PMPA Business Trends Index up 6 points in March, could portend year end average up 10% for shipments of manufactured goods from our shops.