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International Trade: Buy Power, Sell Ideas
The Economist May 3rd 2012, 13:06 by R.D. | LONDON SELLING stuff to foreigners tends to be the last hope for economies whose own consumers are unwilling or unable to [...]
Can Advanced Manufacturing Help Spark an American Industrial Renaissance?
Courtesy of The Atlantic: Over the past few decades, the dominant strategy among most manufacturers has been to shift production to lower-cost countries such as China. Flip over your Apple iDevice [...]
Afterthought – Losing My Bearings
by Lloyd Graff “Where have all the bearings gone?” This is the sad refrain of anybody looking to rebuild a machine whose mechanical joints depend on Timken tapered roller bearings. [...]
An Interview with Master Negotiator Herb Cohen
By Noah Graff For more than three decades, Herb Cohen has been a practicing negotiator, intimately enmeshed in some of the world’s headline dramas, from hostile takeovers to hostage negotiations. [...]
Birth of an Icon: The Story of WD-40
Today’s Machining World Archives September 2006 Volume 02 Issue 09 As testimonials go, it is hardly the usual. “I spray WD-40 on the hinges of my cooler so I can [...]
How It Works – Getting a GRIP
Sure, any old vise can hold the part on a machine table, but a well-thought-out workholding scheme can help you squeeze more chip-making time out of every shift. Certain basic [...]
A Race to the Perfect Collapsible Container
Imports from Asia are rising again. China is allegedly going to allow its currency to rise. Scrap steel is leaving the U.S. and foreign steel is rushing in to fill [...]
Anger Management
By Noah Graff Many of you have heard in the press this week about the scuffle between John Paxson, the Chicago Bulls Executive Vice President, and Vinny Del Negro, the [...]
Afterthought – Bread of Affliction?
Today’s Machining World Archive: April 2010 Vol. 6, Issue 03 I am writing this column one week before the Jewish holiday of Passover. From sun down Monday, March 29th through [...]
Book Review – Game Change
Today’s Machining World Archive: April 2010 Vol. 6, Issue 03 Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin is the story of the 2008 presidential race, both the primary battles [...]