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Manufacturing in Thailand – the “Detroit of the East”
Emily Halgrimson, Today’s Machining World’s Managing Editor, was invited to join 11 other journalists from the U.S. and Canada (six in the automotive sector and six in the food industry sector) by [...]
NBA Flunks Negotiating
One of the more interesting parts of attempting to teach my son Noah the art of business concerns negotiating. It’s a topic of enduring interest because there is seldom a [...]
Making the Call (Afterthought: May 2010)
For almost 10 years I’ve lived the schizoid life of a machinery dealer and writer/publisher. Both jobs stoke my intellectual furnace with firewood. I feel like I’m usually on top [...]
People of the PMPA Management Update
Just a few of the people we caught up with at the Precision Machined Products Association Management Update over the weekend in sunny Scottsdale Arizona. Albert Thuro of Thuro Metal [...]
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. As far as…
Is Toyota the Microsoft of Car Companies
By Noah Graff My boss, one of my favorite free thinkers in the world, asked me the other day whether Toyota is today’s Microsoft of the car industry. It felt [...]
Moving Cheese
By Lloyd Graff Food selling businesses can tell us a lot about best and worst practices in the unending search for elusive success as an entrepreneur. I spent the holidays [...]
A Twisty Tale in the Machining World
By Lloyd Graff This is the story of a cold saw that tells us how the used machinery business sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. Two partners bought a deal with [...]
A CAM Operated Davenport in a CNC World
Last month I wrote an article about the death of Automatic Machining, in which I ended the piece with a reference to the magazine being a CAM operated Davenport in [...]
Industry Scuttlebutt
Hydromat of St. Louis is suffering through a soft spell and has let about 35 people go from its peak employment. But a sign of the times is a fresh [...]