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5 Questions for Continuous Improvement

Every company operates in relationship to an environment that surrounds it. A company both acts upon its environment and is acted upon by its environment. For this reason, the effort to improve a company’s internal processes should be guided by a vantage point that reflects the reciprocal relationship between a company and its environment.

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Tooling

Applications Determine Workholding Solutions

Every turning application has a number of factors that should be considered when making the decision between a collet or a three-jaw chuck.

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Turning Machines

Competing On A Multi-Spindle

For many high-volume applications, multi-spindle automatics are the right technology for production machining. Increasingly, that production efficiency has been pressured by changes in the needs of shops in the form of shorter run jobs and higher tolerances. This article looks at some of the steps one OEM has taken to address quick change-over issues on its multi-spindle machines and their tooling.

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Software

In-Machine Gaging Automates Part Inspection

SPC Innovations' line of in-machine gages may provide an automated solution to some of the issues with post-process inspection.

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Automation & Robots

Measure Roundness, Roughness And Form With One Instrument

For those in the market for accurate and reliable roundness measuring instruments, here’s a line-up designed to offer the right balance of capability, automation and capacity for a range of applications and budgets.

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PMPA Member Profile: Mansfield Screw Machine Products

Mansfield Screw Machine Products Company has been providing precision machined components to customers since 1945. That was when Joseph L. Witchey and two partners founded the manufacturing operation in a small garage in downtown Mansfield, Ohio. In those early days, the company produced parts for two local thermostat manufacturers.

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Will My Products Go? The Real China Question

There is no doubt that the impact of China's entry into the World Trade Organization and its growth as "workshop to the world" in global manufacturing has had a dramatic impact on manufacturing in North America and worldwide. Demand for essential raw materials continues to drive up the prices of machining materials to unprecedented new heights.

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