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The Mike Rowe Effect?
A brilliant quarter for Ford. The company is coining money. Mike Jackson CEO of AutoNation, predicts the firm will sell 100,000 cars this year. Domestic car production is running at [...]
Lloyd’s Juicy PMTS Blog
PMTS 2011—middle of Passover, beginning of Easter, and spring break, but the machining guys turned out, at least those from the Big Ten area, to see who would make their [...]
Walking Around With Screws
The offer of $20 billion being discussed by Johnson & Johnson Inc. to purchase Synthes Inc., based in Pennsylvania, Switzerland and Germany, highlights the value of Swiss CNC machining today. [...]
Questions Going Into PMTS
With the PMTS show coming up next week in Columbus, Ohio, this is what I want to find out: 1. Graff-Pinkert, our machinery business, has noticed a distinct slowdown in [...]
How I Survived the Recession
Four companies that are thriving after the recession, and how they are doing it. Miles Free is the Director of Technology and Industry Research for the Precision Machined Products Association [...]
A Health Club for Makers and Geeks
Manufacturing and building things seems to be trendy these days. Reality/documentary shows like How It’s Made, Myth Busters and American Chopper have large followings of people fascinated by the industrial [...]
Feature Story: Saving Akron’s Soap Box Derby
In the shadow of the hulking Goodyear blimp hangar, on a precisely paved and paint-lined hill in south Akron, Ohio, Corbin Bernsen shakes a rolled up sheaf of papers at [...]
When to Admit to a Screw Up
Is it always a good idea to admit your mistakes preemptively in business? Recalls are the thing to do these days—the latest one is from Southwest Airlines, who now must [...]
Afterthought: Cyclical Times
We live in strange times. The glass half full, glass half empty dichotomy is more dramatic today than at any other time in my memory. If you are in the [...]
Wisconsin’s Uncivil War
The battle of Madison, Wisconsin and Columbus, Ohio is the first major fight of America’s new Civil War between the Governors and the Unionists. Wisconsin’s Scott Walker pushed through a [...]