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Defining Expectations

Ensuring that responsibilities and authorities are defined has always been a mandate of the automotive quality standards. The latest version of ISO (9001:2000) has included the requirement to "ensure that responsibilities and authorities are defined and communicated within the organization."

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Manufacturer Unveils Cold-Finished Steel Bar Facility

This is an exclusive look at a state-of-the-art cold-finished steel bar facility.

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Swiss-Types

Medical Machining: Speed And Accuracy Win Orders

To handle the steady flow of incoming orders, this company has prepared itself by building facilities and purchasing equipment that are able to complete its jobs quickly and efficiently.

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More For Less, And I Want It Now

One way to succeed in today's competitive environment is to seek out partnerships with other industry leaders to mutually leverage each other's technology advances.

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Record-Breaking Sales: Barely Braking Even

I was talking the other day with the chief executive of a shop when he made the following comment, "We have record-breaking sales, yet we’re barely breaking even. We ran the numbers, and on almost every line item, our costs are up a tenth of a percent or so. That doesn’t sound like much, but at the end of our study, those one-tenths added up to almost 7 percent. The Fed and Greenspan missed it. Inflation is alive and well. I can show it to you in my books."

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Industries

Rotary Broaching 101

 There continues to be new ways of driving fasteners into the materials they are intended to hold together.

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Cutting Tools

Small-Diameter Coolant Drills

The CrazyDrill Cool line of coolant drills are designed for applications requiring deep, accurately drilled holes for very small diameters.

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Technical Member Profile: Firetrace International

One of PMPA’s newest technical members is Firetrace International, a provider of automatic fire detection and suppression systems for micro-environments, including all types of computer-controlled machinery. The technology is designed to detect a fire on a machine and automatically suppress it at the source before it has a chance to spread and cause greater damage.

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Medical

Thread Whirling On The Subspindle

The screw machine industry, not surprisingly, started out making screws. Then, screw machines were used to make almost everything but screws—electrical components, aerospace fasteners, plumbing connections and thousands of other kinds of parts.

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Work And Network On Florida’s Sunny Gulf Coast

This opportunity comes only once a year, so make plans to attend the 2005 Annual Meeting, October 15-19, 2005. The Hyatt Coconut Point Resort & Spa in Bonita Springs is one of the newest resorts on Florida’s southwest coast, conveniently located between Fort Myers and Naples. The beautiful, state-of-the-art facility is the perfect location for this year’s meeting where industry peers will come together to seek answers to the challenges facing the precision machined products industry.

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Coolant Filter Requires No Replaceable Elements

This coolant filter back flushes the trapped particles away from the permanent filtering element to restore its effectiveness. The operating principle is similar to a backyard swimming pool.

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