FEATURES

A Candid Look At Our Industry

The past year has been a turbulent one for the precision machined products industry. Parts producers watched as their market share waned in the face of a down market and an increase of imports from Pacific Rim and European countries. Consolidation continues to be a significant issue for our industry as well.

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Choosing A Professional Advisor

Most family business executives recognize the need for professional advisors to fill the roles on their team that are outside their core competency. That's where professional advisors can make a critical difference to help your company plan ahead and achieve greater results.

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Cross-Hole Deburring In-Process

One of the most nagging problems that metal-working shops face is dealing with burrs. Of particular challenge is deburring of the intersection of cross-drilled holes.

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Machining Centers & Milling Machines

Finishing Those Near-Net-Shape Parts

CNC lathes and machining centers provide the finishing touch for near-net-shape semiconductor housing parts.

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It Shouldn't Be The Exception

I think that all businesses, whether they be home repair, screw machine shops, banks, you name it, need to know that exceeding customer expectations is the key to success. If you promise a delivery, meet it. If you say you can do a job, do it. These simple things should be the rule and not the exception.

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Workholding

Need Greater Machine Uptime? Load More Parts At A Time For Machining

In good times and bad, shops should constantly be on the lookout for ways to get more production from their existing equipment. Workholding methods frequently offer significant opportunities for improvement.

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Networking And Information Sharing Are Key Reasons To Belong To PMPA

Networking And Information Sharing Are Key Reasons To Belong To PMPA

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PM News: United They Stand

United Grinding Technologies Inc. (Miamisburg, Ohio) will acquire Ewag USA (North Kingstown, Rhode Island) and merge its operations into UGT. Ewag makes tool grinding machines and tool grinding centers for the production of rotary tools and high-quality indexable inserts of tungsten carbide, PCD and PCBN.

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Turn-Mills

Programming Multitasking Machines?

Applying the right tools and technique to CNC part programming will let shops get the most out of their multitasking equipment.

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Strength In Numbers

Today, it's a different domestic market with very different demands from customers of multispindle screw machine tools. Shops must deal with reduced part volume runs, higher accuracy demands, JIT inventory systems and very tight margins. Comprised of relatively small companies, the domestic screw machine industry had trouble making the adjustment to the newer manufacturing requirements.

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The Threat From China

Traditional thinking is that the threat from China in precision machined products will come from the juggernaut that is the state-owned and run precision machining shops, but that thinking may be flawed, according to an expert on the country and its economy.

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Turning To Drive-By-Wire

Drive-by-wire is causing the jitters at screw machine shops. Two concept cars from European sources have been demonstrated at recent European motor shows.

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CAD/CAM

Winning New Jobs With Online Bidding

The digital revolution is hitting the business of the multiple-spindle automatic machining--in two distinct forms, no less. Twenty-five years after the first wave of digitization in manufacturing (numerical control) its linear descendant, computer numerical control or CNC, is changing the way screw machine shops do business.

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