Lloyd Graff
Industry Scuttlebutt
The purge of former college jocks at GM continues. Former pitcher at the University of Michigan, Fritz Henderson (Senior year ERA of 5.91), is out, following the ouster of Rick [...]
In the Mecca of Swiss Machining
The Swiss just voted overwhelmingly to bar the building of new minarets in Switzerland. No big deal in and of itself (only four of the country’s 150 mosques have them), [...]
Afterthought – Finding Peace with Our Choices
The death of financier Bruce Wasserstein, a friend from college days, hit me like an unsheathed blow to the chin. It wasn’t just because he had survived quadruple bypass surgery [...]
Book Review – Shooting Stars
Even with a proven sports writer like Buzz Bissinger (Friday Night Lights) on board, it’d be all too easy to cast aside the new LeBron James biography Shooting Stars as [...]
How It Works – Laser Marking
By Barbara Donohue Direct Part Marking (DPM) with a laser offers a way to permanently identify parts for tracking, tracing and control. In medical, military, aerospace and other applications where [...]
The Next Automotive Boom
The default position for many in the machining world has been to flee the automotive business like it was an ominous cloud of swine flu. I admit to lapsing into [...]
Lloyd Graff interviews Stan Youtt of Ranor, Inc.
Stan Youtt is CEO of Ranor, Inc., the primary subsidiary of TechPrecision Corporation, a publicly traded contract machining firm. They work in high-tech industries such as solar, nuclear and medical. [...]
You’re Just Too Good to be True
The social awkwardness of Larry David on his HBO show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, makes me feel so uncomfortable that I rarely watch it. But I saw a clip from a recent [...]
Howie Long GM’s Hero
Call me crazy, but General Motors’ shift in advertising from the pathetic Chevrolet and Apple Pie image campaign to a frontal assault on Honda and Toyota, using specs like fuel economy and vehicle value [...]
Is Risk Averse Risky?
I had a long talk today with Miles Free of the Precision Machined Products Association (PMPA). Miles has heavy experience in understanding the technical problems machining companies have in the hostile world [...]