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Cutting Tools

Base Module Forms Digital Tool Data Management

Tech Brief

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Parts Cleaning

Cleaning and Corrosion Protection with Solvents

Protect parts against rust in an efficient and sustainable way.

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Measurement

Industry 4.0 Through Metrology's Eyes

High precision 3D laser and CT scanning bring all the “big data” directly from shop floor to top floor.

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Knowing the Technology Will Sell your Product

In asking our customers how we can better serve them, we have been listening carefully to their responses.

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Machines

Loyalty Bolsters Shop’s Growth

This shop has found its groove with four Ganesh CNC machines that have proven to deliver the performance and quality the company and its customers expect.

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Industries

Process Control in the Medical Shop

For this shop, successful delivery of medical and dental components is about proper process and machine tools that can handle the job.

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Recovering customer-caused waste in your shop, Part 1

What are you doing to recover customer-caused waste in your shop?

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Parts Cleaning

Removing Particulate Contaminants from a Cleaning System

Employing the most appropriate technique and a correctly designed system for maintaining bath quality can lower cleaning costs.

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The Way We Need to Do It

Many shops tend to rely, in many cases too heavily, on internal training for new hires. This can and does often result in a “that’s how we’ve always done it” kind of mindset for newbies.

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Top Ten OSHA Violations

Patrick Kapust, deputy director of OSHA’s directorate of enforcement programs, presented the “OSHA Top Ten” at the National Safety Council 2015 Safety Congress.

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Your Job Matters

I often think about the significance of my job in the big picture. I wonder how important what I do is to the greater good of society. I question if I’m in the right position to contribute to the best of my ability or if I should be doing something that allows me to more directly see results.

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Playing the ‘Long Game’ in the Halls of Congress

In concise, 20-minute conferences, we articulated clearly and forcefully the legislative priorities for members of the precision machining industry.

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PMPA Member Fischer Special Tooling Wins at Problem Solving and Performance

"PMPA has been a one-stop shop from a management and technical perspective, and every company needs some guidance. Whether you’re a tool or a machine shop, you’re going to gain some powerful and thought-out practices.”

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Metalworking Fluids Address Increasing Demands

This line of metal removal emulsion technology products offers end users of metalworking fluids a defined selection of choices to suit their specific needs for process efficiency and lower total cost of ownership.

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