Our optimism is based on the companies that have demonstrated their sustainability in the last downturn regaining operational focus and not being desperate to accept orders that fail to return the cost of capital.
Not even a government monopoly can make a profit producing cheap metallic parts in high volumes…
Time to post your OSHA 300 A summary!
Integrity. Motivation. Objectivity. Ability. Audacity.
As robots become more ubiquitous in our workplaces, they need to know their limits to avoid injuring humans – and the only way to learn is from experience.
Time focus seems to correlate to profitability. Long term trumps over the tyranny of the urgent.
Silicon plays many roles in steel but its most important is deoxidation; It is detrimental to tool life, machinability and surface quality in low carbon and free machining steels.
There are jobs available, but the worker just has to have more skills than before;employers who increasingly need multi-skilled employees aren’t willing to settle for less. The nickname for the highly sought but elusive job candidate whose skills and experiences precisely match an employer’s needs: the “purple squirrel.”
Built up Edge can add tool life when it is stable or give the machinist fits when it is unstable and out of control. Several tips for understanding BUE are given in this post.
Failure to lockout tagout was Industry’s most frequent citation Oct 2009-Sept 2010.