Jan/Feb 2003 ISSUE
FEATURES
Award Winners
The Mitchel Brothers Global Players and Gold Mic Award Winners
Cutting Tools
Choosing Advanced Tooling For Swiss Machining
The right tools for Swiss machines can boost throughput and improve the quality of finished parts. For example, switching from brazed carbide parting tools to more wear resistant coated carbide inserts with sharper edges reduced cycle time on an automotive fluid connector from 11 seconds to just 5 seconds.
Controlling Machine Vibration And Shock
Dynamic loads, and the resulting vibration or shock, are a fact of life with rotating and oscillating machinery. Both shock and vibration can damage equipment, increase operating costs, reduce quality and productivity, and generate objectionable noise levels.
Dollars Last Days . . . Purpose Increases Value
Business owners have moved to creating ‘relationships’ with employees as a motivational tool. However, to support the pace of growth in our economy, employees struggle to find value in ‘soft’ motivational tools such as “employee of the month” programs and look more toward being an integral part of planning their own success. I believe that a pragmatic balance between both the subjective (intangible goals) and the objective (tangible goals) provides the optimal mix for lasting employee motivation.
Is Your Web Site Top Heavy?
Is your site top-heavy? If so, start loading more meaningful info about what value you offer prospects into your site to give it a solid foundation.
Software
Less Setup Equals Being More Competitive
Using CAM software as part of a setup reduction strategy has paid big dividends for this Ohio shop.
New Year, New Face, New Challenges
As publisher, I will continue to look for and learn about techniques and technologies that can positively impact your shop’s business. Art and science come together in screw machine shops around the world, and I see it as our job to describe to you processes that work and products that perform, and then present them in a context that can relate to your business.
PM News: Big Buy
Brinkman International Group, Inc., parent of C.J. Winter Machine Technologies, Inc., has agreed to purchase the assets of Davenport Industries LLC, including all real estate, inventory, machines and intellectual property. The company will focus on keeping the flow of replacement parts uninterrupted.
Ready. Set. Go!
The screw machine industry in our country continues to change. It was changing two years ago when we started PM. In that time we’ve been able to better see in what direction that change is likely to be headed.
Machines
Slashing Secondary Ops With New Swiss CNCs
This company employs 55 people. As labor costs have continued to grow, ownership has begun to realize that the only way to maintain profit margins is to become more efficient. Analyzing the operation, they've honed in on eliminating, or it least drastically reducing, secondary operations.
Automotive
The Dirt On Cleaner Crankshafts
A high-pressure waterjet blasts away burrs and machining residues that resist more traditional cleaning methods.
Training Shows and More
PMPA Training partner PMPA Training Partner Receives ISO Certification The Adult Career Center at Lorain County Joint Vocational School (Lorain, Ohio) recently received Quality ISO 9001: 2001 Site designation. The school has been partnering with the Precision Machined Products Association since 1988, offering the employees of companies within the industry continuing education programs in machining, tool setting and estimating. (See related story on CD training programs on page 18.
Michael Page : Time To Think In One-Hit