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ATTENTION! DEFICIT DISORDER: MACHINE SHOPS HIT 4-YEAR LOW
No Rest For The Weary: Machine shop business has dropped to its worst level in four years due to the worldwide credit problem, extreme conditions in the automotive industry and overall slowing sales.
ATTENTION! DEFICIT DISORDER: THROW THE BUMS OUT
545 vs. 300 million: Every U.S. citizen needs to read this and really think about what is scripted in this message. Read it, then think through our current political debacle.
THE ODESSA FILE
Replenishing A Shortfall: This new Texas welding training center is rapidly building a skilled worker base for the welding industry.
Seminar Event to Cover New Machining Strategies in a Challenging Economy
Emuge Corp. (West Boylston, MA) has announced that they, along with Hermle Machine Co., Open Mind Technologies USA, and M&H Probing Systems will jointly host a complimentary one-day intensive machining seminar on June 9th, 2009 revealing new ways to significantly…
LVD Establishes Joint Venture with China Company
LVD Company n.v. (Gullegem, Belgium) and Hubei Tri-Ring Metalforming Equipment Co., Ltd. (HD) have formed a joint venture company in Huangshi City, Hubei Province, China. The joint venture company will produce LVD sheet metalworking equipment, including turret punch presses, laser…
CNC Engineering Opens West Coast Division
CNC Engineering, Inc. has announced the start-up of a west coast sales and support division in response to their rapidly expanding GE Fanuc control retrofit business. Gene Moss, formerly a sales and applications engineer for GE Fanuc Automation, has been…
PICTURE OF HEALTH
The Doctor Is In: Mike Riley conducts an examination of the medical side of Obamanomics that reveals why universal healthcare is not good for manufacturing.
HOW TO MANAGE YOUR LEAN INITIATIVE
A Proven Path to Success: David Dixon of Technical Change Associates opens this three-part series that teaches the senior management team “how to” initiate and manage a successful Lean implementation.
THE MECHANICS OF SHEARING
Dr. Vukota Bolijanovic explains how the shearing process cuts through flat material forms, such as sheets and plates.
A NEW PLACE TO DWELL
Denny Boerger of AIDA-America shows how advances in press technology enable stampers to produce highly precise medical parts that could only be manufactured previously through machining operations.
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE
The layout of job shop Dynamic Fabrication enables quick turnarounds of precision parts that help save lives and improve the quality of life for patients worldwide.
HOW CONDUCTIVITY CAN AFFECT YOUR WELDING OPERATION
Do you know how easy it is for electrical circuit disruptions to interfere with productivity, weld quality and equipment service life? Andy Monk of Bernard Welding Equipment provides tips to prevent built-up resistance from causing undue equipment and rework costs.
