A Late Thanksgiving Tribute

Thanksgiving gives us a chance to recognize and thank the engineers and machinists who designed and built these modern technologies.

We have many blessings in our lives—the love of family and friends is chief among them. Most of us enjoy an unparalleled material well-being, and a lifestyle of modern convenience that is the envy of the world.

Thanksgiving provides us the chance to recognize and thank the engineers, machinists and entrepreneurs who have designed and built these modern technologies that keep us safe, comfortable and make our modern lifestyle possible.

Precision machined components enable almost all modern technologies to function safely and efficiently. It makes me smile to understand where all this behind the scenes technological “magic” is sourced. Thanks to the machinists who make them, the engineers that design them, and the investors who tool up their shops to be able to produce them.

Thanksgiving is also about recognizing how our loved ones contribute to our ability to produce our highly engineered components: They help us keep in mind what “safety critical” really means, and make sure we have what we need when we arrive on the job. They also give us a reason to return home, all body parts intact. I am thankful for the blessings of my family and friends.

I am grateful to live in a time where technology makes my life more about the joy of my family’s company than about battling forces to merely survive. Technology works, thanks to machinists.

In our shops, we have calibration routines to help us assure that our output is to spec and is acceptable.

Thanksgiving is a day for us to recalibrate and reflect on the blessings that collectively we share. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving with friends and family!

Originally posted on PMPAspeakingofprecision.com blog.