Lloyd Graff
Swarf: Wisconsin’s Uncivil War
By Lloyd Graff Today’s Machining World Archives May 2011 Volume 07 Issue 04 The battle of Madison, Wisconsin and Columbus, Ohio is the first major fight of America’s new Civil [...]
Forum: It’s Just Not That Simple
Today’s Machining World Archives May 2011 Volume 07 Issue 04 It’s Just Not That Simple I enjoyed reading the primer from the April 2011 issue “How it Works” piece on [...]
Editor’s Note: Ending the Print Magazine
Today’s Machining World Archives May 2011 Volume 07 Issue 04 After almost 11 years of doing Today’s Machining World, I have decided to make the next issue (June) of TMW [...]
America’s Lingering PTSD
It strikes me that Americans are still trying to recover from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the 2008-2009 deep recession. Banks are still looking backward at the housing shock and [...]
The Mike Rowe Effect?
A brilliant quarter for Ford. The company is coining money. Mike Jackson CEO of AutoNation, predicts the firm will sell 100,000 cars this year. Domestic car production is running at [...]
Lloyd’s Juicy PMTS Blog
PMTS 2011—middle of Passover, beginning of Easter, and spring break, but the machining guys turned out, at least those from the Big Ten area, to see who would make their [...]
Walking Around With Screws
The offer of $20 billion being discussed by Johnson & Johnson Inc. to purchase Synthes Inc., based in Pennsylvania, Switzerland and Germany, highlights the value of Swiss CNC machining today. [...]
Questions Going Into PMTS
With the PMTS show coming up next week in Columbus, Ohio, this is what I want to find out: 1. Graff-Pinkert, our machinery business, has noticed a distinct slowdown in [...]
Interview with Mitchell Liss, President of Edsal Manufacturing Company, Inc
By Lloyd Graff Today’s Machining World Archives September 2010 Volume 06 Issue 07 Lloyd and Noah Graff met with Mitchell Liss, president of Edsal Manufacturing Company, Inc., to talk about [...]
Afterthought: Cyclical Times
We live in strange times. The glass half full, glass half empty dichotomy is more dramatic today than at any other time in my memory. If you are in the [...]