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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 [...]
A Headhunter’s View of the Machinist Job Market
Today’s Machining World Archive: July/August 2009, Vol. 5, Issue 06 Lloyd Graff Interviews Tom Medvec LG: Have you ever seen a hiring climate like this? TM: Never. I hear things [...]
One on One with Dr. Rockford Weitz: How to capitalize on the melting arctic icecap
Today’s Machining World Archive: May-June 2009 Vol. 5, Issue 05 Global climate change is rapidly melting the Arctic icecap, enabling some ships to finally travel over continents, both through the [...]
The Ways of Japan: Scraping the Ways of Japanese Culture
By Noah Graff Today’s Machining World Archives April 2009 Volume 5 Issue 04 February 16-28, 2009, I traveled to Japan; with business class plane fare and three days of accommodations [...]
How It Works – What happened?
Today’s Machining World Archive: December 2008, Vol. 4, Issue 12 When parts break, an analytical lab can do the detective work to find out why. Sometimes machined parts present a [...]
How It Works – Cutting Fluids
Today’s Machining World Archive: July 2008, Vol. 4, Issue 07 Unless you’re doing dry machining, you’ll use some kind of cutting oil or fluid in your machines. Cutting fluids and [...]
Bathroom Bling: Creating the New Product Stream
Today’s Machining World Archive: January 2008, Vol. 4, Issue 01 Behold the faucet. It’s a common fixture, certainly, but please don’t call it by its pedestrian name. The up-to-date among [...]
The General Recycled
LG: Do you prefer to be called General Batiste? JB: John. I retired two years ago. LG: Was that an adjustment to be called John? JB: It was a little [...]
How It Works – Robots in the Shop
Today’s Machining World Archive: November 2007, Vol. 3, Issue 11 Robots can perform many tasks that are done by humans, and they can keep on performing these tasks, shift after [...]
An Interview with Carlos Cardoso CEO of Kennemetal
Today’s Machining World Archive: September 2007 Vol. 3, Issue 09 Lloyd Graff: Kennametal was a global firm when you took over, but now you are making it more so. Can [...]