Business Protection You Can’t Afford To Be Without
By: Miles Free -Contract review is a critical aspect of running a successful shop. APQP, FMEA, and PPAP—all of these contribute to the "no surprises, products meet all aspects" of the customer’s specification delivery experience. But what about the commercial side? The efforts you fail to make on commercial aspects of your obligations can have consequences just as serious as shipping nonconforming products to your customer.
Technical Member Profile: Champion Screw Machine Engineering, Inc.
By: PMPA: Precision Machined Products Association -Champion is a leading supplier of Acme-Gridley replacement parts, tooling and attachments. The company also stocks parts for Davenport, New Britain and Conomatic.
Triple Jeopardy And Your Stored PCs
By: Miles Free -Because of the high initial cost and relatively short useful life (about 5 years) of most personal computers, many companies delay disposal of their old PCs. Yet, the consequence of maintaining a depot of used PCs actually increases the risk to a business in at least three areas: environmental, employee privacy and customer privacy.
Obsolete Federal Specifications
By: Miles Free -The reform of federal government acquisition processes has resulted in the wholesale demise of entire classes of specs, standards and commercial item descriptions. MIL-STDs and MIL-Specs once added up to 35,000 in the early 1990s.
International Materials Data System Reporting
By: Miles Free -On September 18, 2000, the European Union established the End of Life Vehicles Directive to identify hazardous materials that were contained in cars. The directive was also designed to determine the content recyclability in vehicles at the end of their useful life. A reporting system called the International Materials Data System (IMDS) was established for standardizing the reporting of chemical compositions finding their way into automobiles.
A Crisis Management Lesson from a Professional Violinist and the San Francisco Symphony
By: Miles Free -This contingency plan ensured that the soloist and senior violinist had working instruments, allowing the performance to continue. Another part of the organization made the needed repairs on-time and on-site.
Member Profile: RB Royal Industries
By: PMPA: Precision Machined Products Association -In 1942, John Neumann Sr. founded the company that would become RB Royal Industries, Inc. In the early days, Mr. Neumann produced fuel and brake lines in the basement of his home and sold them—along with brass fittings—from his car.
Between A Rock And A Hard Place
By: Miles Free -When the subject of 'material challenges' or 'material difficulties' is brought up in manufacturing, one instantly suspects difficulties in machining or cutting the material. But the real material challenge facing the industry today is the following 1-2-3 punch.
Education And Networking—Hawaiian Style
By: Rob Kiener -Combine PMPA’s 71st Annual Meeting, October 16-20, 2004, at the Westin Maui, Lahaina, Hawaii, with a structured business program, and you have the ultimate senior management retreat!
71st Annual Meeting Features Maui & More
By: Rob Kiener -With a range of speakers discussing issues facing the industry and unlimited networking opportunities, the 2004 PMPA annual meeting should be a priority for your company’s top management team. This year’s meeting is being held October 16-18 at the spectacular Westin Maui on Ka’anapali Beach, the island of Maui, Hawaii.