What you Need to Change to Thrive in Great Times
By: Miles Free -What keeps us afloat in bad times might prevent us from thriving in better times.
Unleaded Brass: Change Your Thinking
By recognizing and accommodating for their lack of lead, and the resultant different thermal conductivity, differences in chip forming and the need to up-tool for heavier feeds rather than higher speeds, your shop can be successful at making parts from these newer, more challenging grades.
Training the Next Generation: Future Workforce Canada
By: Sterling Gill, III -Precision Machined Products Association (PMPA)Charles Ruecker, president of Core Powered, picked his collaborators to help realize his vision of bringing manufacturing to local high school students so they could see the career opportunities available for them in precision machining.
PMPA Member Hannes Precision Finds Success in Flexibility and Top Customer Service
The company has grown to be a leader in delivering Swiss automatic screw machine products for a number of industries, including electronics, defense, computers and entertainment.
Transitioning to Unleaded Brass: Impacts on the Precision Machined Products Industry
By: Miles Free -Anything that reduces or eliminates our recovery of brass scrap dollars is a serious threat to our businesses.
Central Bursts, Chevroning in Cold-Drawn and Extruded Steels
By: Miles Free -The compressive stresses of cold working can result in failures by shear along planes 45 degrees to the applied stress.
Kata Practice for Scientific-Thinking Skill and Mindset
Toyota Kata begins with this assumption and asks: what are the practice routines that will help managers outside Toyota develop the necessary skills and mindset to lead fundamental change in their organizations?
Titan Gilroy: Finding Your Career, and Yourself, Through Precision Machining
How Mr. Gilroy approached and dealt with the challenges he faced, in life, and in the shop, will be a positive guide to show us just how capable we are to meet the issues we too face, in life and on the job.
RoHS Exemptions Delayed Again in EU
By: Miles Free -According to Electronics Industry Portal I-Connect007, the EU is unlikely to publish the RoHS exemptions for lead any time soon. The EU Commission is only now in the process of preparing draft legislation to be sent to the member states for consideration.
Lockout Tagout: What Management Needs to do for Periodic Inspection
By: Miles Free -Providing lockout/tagout devices, ensuring that equipment is capable of being locked out and tagged out are other management responsibilities and are typically well in hand in the shops I visit.