The PMPA Members Listserves provide prompt and reliable answers to members pressing questions by providing distributed problemsolving. Here is a sample regarding factors that can affect the rusting of precision machined parts.
Five Chronic Material selection problems are :
1. Material Selection after the part/component is ‘designed’.
2. Material Selections not reviewed over time.
3. Materials copied from old designs.
4. Material substitutions fail.
5. Bad material selections – the gift that keeps on taking.
Even if every tax and fee the government collected were raised by fifty percent-something that is not possible because some activities would leave the country and some services would have many fewer customers-the deficit would still exceed $600 billion.
California exported more than 2,500 manufacturing jobs to China and then added insult to injury by spending taxpayer dollars to send 250 public and private workers to China to provide training. In effect, at a time of economic hardship and rising unemployment in the United States, the state of California provided funding and training to create jobs and make workers more competitive in China. Yay team.
Grade in flation makes it difficult for employers to determine if a student is truly exceptional or merely mediocre. Use other resources like faculty recommendations in LinkedIn to determine if the student is truly outstanding.
The difference between helping people and enabling bad behaviors is that if the results don’t change as a result of your coaching or counseling, you’re enabling.
In what appears to be a somewhat controversial move, the Obama administration is expected to award a $730 million loan to OAO Severstal, a Russian steel manufacturer that will use the funds to upgrade its Dearborn, Mich., factory. $730 million divided by 260 resulting permanent jobs = $2,807,692.
Creating jobs via government sure is costly!
According to Switzerland’s Anti-PowerPoint Party (APPP) , the use of presentation software costs the Swiss economy 2.1 billion Swiss francs (US$2.5 billion) annually, while across the whole of Europe, presentation software causes an economic loss of €110 billion (US$160 billion). APPP bases its calculations on unverified assumptions about the number of employees attending presentations each…
You want to increase jobs and employment in the United States?
1) Cut the deficit;
2) Develop Energy and exploration policies that make sense;
3) Roll back the Health care juggernaut whose rising costs and obligations is beginning to dissuade employers from hiring ;
4) Take action on China Currency Manipulation.
Of particular interest to the precision machining industry may be the Occupational Exposure to Beryllium rule , 1218-AB76 that is being finalized.
A proposed revised interpretation to the “persuader rule” lessening the scope of what constitutes “advice exempt from reporting under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA)” is also included.
No signs of what the proposed Beryllium regulation will look like yet.