Job Shops Can Do Additive Manufacturing, Too
Although you’re intrigued by the process of additive manufacturing, you might be under the assumption that it is beyond the capabilities of your shop; after all, something this different from what you are doing now is out of your league.
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Two Hours a Day in ‘The Gemba’ Could Save Your Job
The Gemba is the place we go to reduce cost, improve quality, create satisfied customers and build better teams.
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Plenty of Manufacturing Jobs Listed Online and at Community Colleges
Check out PMPA's Career Database
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Employee Ownership
When a company has the support of a dedicated group of employees, it’s likely to continue to grow.
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PMPA To Offer Continuing Education Units to Add to Learning Experiences
As an association with 80 years of providing valuable content and training through local, regional and annual meetings, this CEU process will help employers and employees track the value of this training.
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NIMS Offers Workshops for Training
To help with training's ongoing process, NIMS is now offering a Professional Development Series: a collection of workshops designed to improve or maintain excellence in metalworking training.
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Tooling Tips for Exotics
While exotic materials typically provide improved wear characteristics and better service life in the final product, they can present particular challenges during machining.
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What is a Company’s Most Important Job?
What is absolutely the one thing that truly determines organizational success? Is it supervision? Operations? Accounting? Purchasing? Each of these are core competencies without which a company can struggle and ultimately fail. But what is the most important job for the organization?
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Seco Adds Courses to 2013 STEP Training Schedule
These courses ensure Seco customers and distributors are up-to-speed on the latest tooling systems and metal cutting techniques.
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Machine Donation Helps Students
Methods Machine Tools has donated the use of a new vertical machining center and a turning center to Ivy Tech Community College’s Orthopedic and Advanced Manufacturing Training Center (OAMTC) in Warsaw, Ind. as part of the Advanced Manufacturing and Orthopedic Quality Standards and Technical Skills certificate program curriculum.
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Closing the Loop—Post Job Continuous Improvement
You need to have a post job review with the estimating department to make sure the quote was accurate, and if it wasn’t, why wasn’t it, and what will you do differently with the next quote so it doesn’t happen again. Without a process for reviewing a job after completion, our shops are doomed to make the same mistakes again.
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Coming to a School Near You
The parents I know who have students in engineering school are giddy about the compensation level that these young people are being offered.
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Milacron Hires All 10 Graduates from the First Machinist Pilot Training Program
Sometimes, one must take the bull by the horns.
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Online CNC Training
The Heidenhain Interactive Training tool is designed to create an informative yet entertaining learning experience, teach the most important elements of a CNC machine, and impart fundamental knowledge about CNC programming.
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NIMS Accreditation 2013 Update
So far, 2013 has brought a flurry of NIMS accreditation activity, including programs seeking accreditation and others pursuing renewal to an existing accreditation.
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Manufacturers Among Leaders of Job Creation, yet Lack Next-Generation Workforce
The good news is that manufacturing hiring was up in 2012, with more growth projected for 2013 and 2014.
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Advanced Metrology on Tour
A series of user group seminars and micro-shows this spring and summer will allow visitors to see and interact with the latest measurement and quality control technology.
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Skill-Building and Training Certification
The National Institute for Metalworking Skills is highlighting its National Standards for Metalworking training and the program’s benefits for in-house training programs.
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Managing Employee Performance Variability
Companies experience numerous life cycles over the duration of their existence.
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