Noah Graff
France's Technical Center of the Screw Machining Industry
In 1962, the French government created CTDEC, a research and training center primarily devoted to screw machining, in France’s Haute-Savoie region, located right across the border from Geneva, Switzerland. Comprised [...]
Line Shaft Power Transmission at Museum in France
The first week of April, Noah Graff of TMW attended a press junket put on by the Arve-Industries Competitiveness Pole in the Haute-Savoie of France, a historic and current hotbed [...]
Ohlemacher Bros. "The Huddle"
Jeff and Brad Ohlemacher, president and vice president of Elyria Manufacturing, talk about utilizing Verne Harnish’s Rockefeller habit of “the huddle” to unify their employees.
David Plitt, Forman at University of Chicago Machine Shop
Today’s Machining World did an interview in the April issue with David Plitt, the foreman of the U of C machine shop. This video is an excerpt of the interview. [...]
Jim Graff of Graff-Pinkert & Co. Reports on Delphi auction
Machinery dealer Jim Graff just got back from a Delphi auction in Kettering Ohio. He reported that most machines there were selling very cheaply and that many were leaving the [...]
What it Takes to Change the World
This day on March 18, 1662, the first bus service began in France. Blaise Pascal, most famous for his mathematics, physics and philosophical genius, conceived the idea. The system started [...]
'Made in China' Is Cheap No More
A recent story by Frank Langfitton on NPR’s “All Things Considered” reported that rising costs and shifts in Chinese government policy are actually forcing hundreds of smaller Chinese factories to [...]
A Different Kind of Strike
American Axle has finally sat down at the bargaining table with the UAW since its members went on strike Feb. 26. Since the strike, 10 plants have been shut down [...]
The World of Industrial Auctions is Changing
European based industrial auctioneer GoIndustry is on the cusp of buying DoveBid, the largest Internet industrial auction company in the United States. The industrial auction segment of eBay has suffered [...]
Heparin — The Latest Outsourcing Debacle
Recently there have been four deaths and 350 significant allergic reactions from a contaminated supply of Heparin sold by the Baxter brand. Baxter outsources a key ingredient for Heparin in [...]