Jimi Hendrix song as Design statement for White House cabinet- only 8% of cabinet appointees have private business experience.
“Are you experienced?… We’ll hold hands and watch the sunrise together from the bottom of the sea…”
Our industry sales continue to recover. For our industry, this data shows that recovery is underway. Thirty-four percent (34%) of participating shops reported double digit sales increases in October. The outlook for sales in the short term has stabilized. There are strong and positive indicators of sales recovery in the Precision Machining Industry.
While Austenitic Grain Size is a result of chemistry (composition), the changes that it evokes in our process are a result of material structure and properties, not just the chemical ‘ingredients.’ Steel that is fully deoxidized and grain refined is more sound, less suseceptible to cracking and distorting, and more easily controlled in heat treat. Well worth it in final performance compared to the machinist’s increased tooling costs.
US EPA Greenhouse Gas(GHG) regulations will unilaterally reduce US manufacturing activity, perversely increasing GHG emissions worldwide.
Kanter’s 6 rules to stifle innovation look a heckuva lot like our PPAP process. If you know what I mean…
Now is the time for innovation- throughout our organizations, not just the shop floor. Free Rethinking Lean “Tool You Can Use” as your organization faces: reduced access to capital, few orders, difficult to obtain raw materials, and difficult to find skilled people.
Austenitic Grain size, like Chemistry, can affect the machining and other performance of steel in your shop. 5 effects of Coarse Austenitic Grain Size are described.
The Top 10 Suppliers of Crude oil to the U.S. include Venezuela, Nigeria, Iraq, Angola, and Colombia. What do you think of this?
Even more evidence that the precision machining Industry is recovering, seen from a Canadian perspective.
China Hoarding: taxes, fees and export restraints create implicit subsidies and reduce competition, depite their agreement to be bound by WTO fair trading rules.