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New How it Works – Machining Families of Parts
The online version of Today’s Machining World continues to produce new feature stories such as this one from our best freelance writers. You can increase production and reduce costs by [...]
Tim Tebow. Enough Already?
I’ve been anxious to see Tim Tebow, the controversial Denver Broncos quarterback people love to hate because he is unabashedly committed to his religious faith and fearlessly shows it to [...]
Industry Scuttlebutt
If Mitt Romney does decently in Iowa and wins New Hampshire he has the Republican nomination. If Newt Gingrich wins Iowa and is respectable in New Hampshire he has a [...]
Distribution and Manufacturing: Marriage Made in Heaven?
I see a mini-trend developing in the consolidation of companies in distribution and Hydromat machining companies. A major automotive supplier whose core business process is rotary transfer turning of steel [...]
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 [...]
One on One – Dr. Dennis Hong
Dr. Dennis Hong is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech and the director of the Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa). He is also faculty advisor for the [...]
Interview with Cell Phone Guru, Scott Goldman
Interview by: Noah Graff Scott Goldman, also nicknamed “The Wireless Wizard,” is one of the world’s foremost authorities on cell phones. For the last 25 years he’s been an author, [...]
Bad Reception
Reflections on my hotel experiences from a week on the road. I just got back from travels that took me to Austin, Texas, Palo Alto, and Pasadena, California. I stayed [...]
Babies, Manufacturing and Tandoori Chicken
I attended the PMPA annual meeting last weekend and watched an inspiring talk by Herbert E. Meyer, Former Vice Chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council. He gave a unique [...]
Why is my business so good if the economy is so bad?
I attended the Precision Machined Products Association’s annual meeting in Austin over the weekend. The question I heard often was, “Why is my business so good if the economy is [...]