Craftsman's Cribsheet: Accident Incident Response: What to Do When an Accident or Near-Miss Incident Without Injury Occurs in Your Shop
Your employer should have an emergency plan to deal with accidents and injuries in your shop. The following list is a refresher in the event that you can’t find your employer’s plan and you encounter an accident involving a coworker.
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The Precision Machining Industry and the PMPA
Our industry has grown, from the model of small family ownership to support the founding craftsman’s talents, to almost 4,000 establishments, many still closely held, generating more than $18 billion in annual production.
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Change for the Better, Better Together
The PMPA executive board is working on a new approach to ensure they continue to provide members with the technical support, information and networking deliverables that the team has consistently delivered.
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Craftsman's Cribsheet Number 75: A Shop Guide to 5-S
5-S is a standardized process for developing and maintaining an organized, safe, clean and high-performance work environment.
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Here's What Isn't Making it to Digital
What isn’t making it to digital is an important question you should know and care about in order to sustain your business.
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PMPA Member C. Thorrez Industries Celebrates 100 Years of Success
The story of C. Thorrez Industries began in 1912 when Mr. Thorrez’s grandfather left his life as a farmer and a peasant in West Flanders, Belgium, and moved to Jackson, Michigan.
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Craftsman's Cribsheet: Five More Must-Do Safety Contacts to Start The New Year
Here are five mandatory safety contacts to assure getting your team’s safety training off to a good start in 2019.
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Effective Associating Advocacy to Advance our Members
PMPA’s mission is to provide information, advocacy and networking opportunities that advance our members.
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PMPA Member AccuRounds Finds Success in Operational Excellence and Community Leadership
As a PMPA member, AccuRounds benefits from the organization’s networking possibilities and access to information via its listserves and technical support.
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NTC 2019: A Crossroads of Talent and Technology
What two words summarize our view of our businesses? In my experience with visiting the member companies of the PMPA, I would suggest those two words would be “talent and technology.”
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Craftsman’s Cribsheet Number 73: 5 Must-Do Safety Contacts to Start the New Year
These five regulations are applicable to our shops and make a great logical foundation for getting 2019’s safety training off to a good start.
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PMPA Member PFI Precision Machining Finds Success in Equipment Investment and Employee Training
PFI invests heavily in its equipment and offers screw machining, CNC machining, Swiss turning and multi-spindle turning processes. The company focuses on manufacturing a myriad of high precision parts, including sensor components, solenoid components, valve seats, inserts for molded parts, fittings, assemblies and brackets.
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PMPA Member ABF Engineering and Machining Finds Success in its Product Quality and Internal Software Development
Sometime around the late 1970s, Alton, Joan and William (Bill) Wynn decided to leave the big city bustle of Chicago to start their own machine shop in their home state of Tennessee.
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Precision Machining Industry Prognostications: How’d We Do?
Before we make predictions for the coming year, perhaps a brief review of what we thought was ahead last year might be in order.
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Variables Data: Four Aspects of Every Measurement
What’s in a number? What’s in the numbers we use? A lot more than you might think.
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Preparing Your Crisis Control Plan
Effective management of risk, commitment to serve the customer and get to a win-win resolution, and a truly competent, empowered team are key to succeeding in crisis situations. But the organizational steps you take before any crisis occurs are the real keys to your company’s crisis control success.
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