Precision Machining — What Has Changed Since COVID-19 Began?
Is new technology the change? The essential workers that have been making parts that make a difference are the real change — and it is a positive change that bodes well for manufacturing, workforce and our economy.
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Parts Cleaning Questions Resulting from COVID-19
While companies scramble to change processes practically overnight, they are forced to respond with creativity and flexibility, improving communication with customers and employees along the way.
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CNC Machine Shops: How Engaged with Social Media Are You?
Engaging in social media can be an effective way for precision CNC machine shops to get the word out about their capabilities, culture and successes.
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5 Tips for Maintaining a Virus-Free Workplace
Tom Forsythe, executive vice president, Kyzen Corp., provides some suggested guidelines on how to keep employees safe from COVID-19.
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Effective Leadership Emerges During Trying Times
Effective machine shop leaders are those who give their team members the tools they need to carry out their duties as efficiently as possible when times are good and when times are bad.
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Our Precision Machining Industry Responds
This moment-in-time article describes the challenges multiple precision machine shops faced — and met — to support customers’ and employees’ needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Strong Leaders of CNC Machine Shops will Create the New Normal
Strong leaders don’t just accommodate change, they embrace it. Strong leaders also don’t merely adjust to the new normal, they create it.
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Business Activity Contraction Quickens as Economic Shutdown Endures
April’s New Orders and Production Activity Collapse as Index Falls to All-Time Low.
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Precision Index Contracts as Coronavirus Disrupts
Multiple Index Components Report Record Lows
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Sanitize Machine Controllers Regularly During Coronavirus Outbreak
Keeping your workers safe from the coronavirus makes it extremely important to institute a sanitizing procedure on all touch surfaces of the controller, screen and operating panel. I did some research and here’s what I found.
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