PMPA: Your Business Assurance
By: Miles Free -With the cost of PMPA dues less than one quarter of a percent of your company’s sales, your dues purchase of PMPA assurance is money well spent to assure your business sustainability and provide you with personal peace of mind.
How VIBCO Achieved Lean
VIBCO振动器,成立于1962年,生产和markets a comprehensive range of industrial and construction vibrators.
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Correct Handling Preserves Straightness
By: Miles Free -Straightness is critical for holding position and tolerances on today’s highly engineered medical, aerospace, automotive and electronic parts.
Mastercam Software is Driven with PMPA Member Needs in Mind
Mastercam, developed by CNC Software Inc., is the most widely used CAD/CAM software in the world.
What Gives Your Shop Traction?
By: Miles Free -Technology, knowledge, staff capabilities and scale are four determinants of our shop's traction.
5 Buyer Decisions That Increase Costs
By: Miles Free -These five factors can unnecessarily add costs or delays to a precision machined part: small order quantities, material selection, special diameter holes, close tolerances, unnecessarily fine surface finish.
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Actually, Skills Do Pay the Bills
By: Miles Free -Skills are what is demanded, and are in short supply. Higher wages are determined by the value add of the skills obtained, and held in check by low cost competitors across the globe.
Manufacturing Jobs - What You Need (and Want) to Know
By: Miles Free -Four of the top five manufacturing sectors by added employment in 2012 were key markets served by precision machining; transportation equipment, motor vehicles and parts, fabricated metal products, machinery. Learn why a career in manufacturing may be your best bet in 2013.
Craftsman's Cribsheet: Why Service Trumps Quality and Price
By: Miles Free -In the precision machining business, nobody sets up their machines based on the quality or price of raw material/barstock.
PMPA Member Solves Precision Machining Problems
Morris Group Inc. is one of the largest suppliers of machine tools and related engineering and support services in North America.