FEATURES

Swiss-Types

Finding Better Ways to Compete

This Indiana shop has reinvented itself to succeed in a tough market that many have abandoned to foreign competition—fasteners. It’s a story of change, response and adjustment that has allowed the company to navigate through mine fields of industry change and our great recession to exit as a stronger and better business.

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For Minor Servicing and Maintenance (Routine, Repetitive, Integral to Use), Lockout is Not Mandatory

PMPA member companies are engaged in making parts that require precision machining.

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LinkedIn: Are You Missing a Golden Opportunity to Network?

If you’re not on LinkedIn, you should be.

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Tooling

Micro Drill Cuts to New Depths

At the EMO show, Mikron Tool demonstrated a new addition to the company’s Crazy Drill line of cutting tools--micro drills capable of drilling deep holes from 0.1 to 1.2 mm in diameter in increments of 0.01 mm at depths as much as 30x diameter.

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Shop Management Software

Profiting with Shop Management Software

Once all employees can see how process changes can benefit them, implementation becomes easier and efficiency soars.

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'Right Skills Now' Provides Fast-Track Training for Skilled Manufacturing Jobs

According to a Skills Gap study by the Manufacturing Institute, more than 80 percent of U.S. manufacturers can’t find qualified people for the almost 600,000 skilled production jobs that are currently unfilled.  For American manufacturing to be successful, employers need machinists that have the right skills, and they need those skills now.

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Single & Multi-Spindles

Six are Good, Eight are Better

At the recently completed EMO Hannover, the multi-spindle builder Index, headquartered in Esslingen, Germany, unveiled its new eight-spindle, CNC automatic production lathe.

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The Economy: Where Do We Go From Here?

February’s PMPA Management Update Conference in San Diego will feature Howard C.

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What are you Doing to Make Your Next Email Campaign a Success?

 Email is still a valuable and productive marketing tool if used correctly.

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Growing Customer Share

"If your focus is growth, the gold is in the business you don’t have from the customers you already serve."

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Tooling

Rotary Tables Take Machining to a New Level

To get more capability from a machining center, adding a fourth axis via a rotary table is a cost-effective way to produce multiple face workpieces more easily and quickly.

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