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China Shipping--A Midwesterner's View

In the Midwest, we see the China trade issue pretty simply. We lose our manufacturing jobs to cheap overseas labor; we pay our taxes to Washington, D.C., and we wonder why nobody does anything about those cheap imports killing our jobs. We still wonder why the currency peg hasn’t been dealt with, and we wonder what is so difficult about this.
On the West Coast, the view is a little different.

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Measurement

Gaging Is Baseless Without Standards

Applying gaging standards consistently is the key to quality parts and products.  

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How Online Communities Can Help Businesses, Part 2

This month, I want to explore the advantages online communities can provide for your own Web site’s visibility and prominence, resulting in more exposure to motivated prospects and more leads.

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Is Incremental Improvement Enough?

Is incremental improvement enough for our industry’s long-term survival? How many precision machining companies will perish in the next 5 years? 

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Turning Machines

Optics Maker Focuses On Flexible Production

Leupold & Stevens has found the key to successful precision machining. It operates more than 30 Index machines, primarily multifunction turning machines used to produce the bodies and tubes for the rifle scopes from aircraft-quality aluminum.

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Measurement

Reducing Downtime With Tool Presetting

It’s an ongoing challenge. To remain competitive, shops must find new and more efficient ways to increase production. Often they look to new, faster and more precise machine tools as the answer. Sometimes experimentation with a variety of different tooling

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Remembering The Past, Celebrating The Future: PMPA’s 75th Annual Meeting

With a rich history and tradition of service to the industry, the PMPA will pause and remember those who were instrumental in its 75 years of success.

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Report From The Executive Director

As we near the end of another fiscal and program year, I want to be sure readers know about the PMPA staff, association finances and our volunteer leaders.

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Turn-Mills

When To Combine Milling And Turning

Turn/Mill technology enables users to complete a workpiece in a single handling. This article looks at some of the criteria that make application of this multi-tasking productive.

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Small-Scale Rotary Broaching

As a broached form gets smaller, tool centering becomes increasingly important and thrust forces less significant. Rather than simply scaling down larger product designs, this company developed a small-scale rotary broaching tool that eliminates the need for an orbiting head and the need to adjust the holder for different tool lengths.

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