PMPA Political Action: What’s at Stake for Your Business?
By: Miles Free -PMPA is involved and working to minimize their negative impact on your shop. Here is a quick review of a few of them.
Some OEM Customers Lack Insight into Market Demand
By: Miles Free -Lousy forecasting by some OEM customers beats lean and JIT every time, leaving the OEM’s supply chain bloated with inventory and starving for releases.
A Grand Event in Grand Rapids
By: Russ Willcutt -Production MachiningThe 2016 PMPA National Technical Conference provided three days of powerful sessions to hundreds of attendees eager to support their industry and improve their own business acumen.
Why Tool Life Can Vary: Carbon and Alloy Steels
By: Miles Free -Despite the use of our best technology and our efforts to control our processes, tool life can vary when machining carbon and alloy steels.
Discounted Small Package Domestic U.S. Express Shipping
Here are a few examples of the discounted domestic U.S. express shipping services and benefi ts that are available to PMPA members through the PMPA shipping program.
PMPA Technical Member PartMaker Inc. Finds Success through Pioneering CAM Software and Excellence in Applications Support
While the lack of horsepower in the turn-mill machines of the mid-90s made them too primitive for PartMaker’s software at the time, the company recognized an underserved niche in CAM software for Swiss-type lathes.
Unknown Knowns: Rumsfeld Missed One–Will You?
By: Miles Free -What is your plan for harvesting the ‘unknown knowns’ so that your team and your culture can continue to thrive?
Upset Testing for Steel
By: Miles Free -An “upset” can be performed to determine how the steel will perform under compressive load.
A Member’s View of a PMPA Washington, D.C. Trip
By: Miles Free -Mike Reader, president of Precision Plus, shares his take on PMPA’s recent two-day Capitol Hill fly-in.
Getting the Most out of Drills in your Shop
By: Miles Free -The three keys are keeping the drill short, getting the feed rate right and replacing the drill on schedule before it dulls.