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Ethics: Drug Testing in the Workplace
Among many hats I wear, I handle human resources for a transmission re-manufacturing facility with around 35 employees, including office staff. Our management asked me to develop a drug testing [...]
A Machinist’s Education
Recently I had a long conversation with Tom Peters of Symbol Job Training Inc., a CNC operator training school in Skokie, IL (a Chicago suburb). For $5,340 his firm will [...]
One on One: Eric Golden, President and CEO of Equipois
Eric Golden, is President and CEO of Equipois® Inc., a company specializing in creating products that increase worker productivity by reducing fatigue on the body. In March 2011, the company [...]
My Predictions for 2012
It is so hard to make solid predictions about the economy for 2012 because unpredictable events like the earthquake-tsunami in Japan and the floods in Thailand in 2011 will always [...]
Shop Doc – Flaking in the Threads with Brass Parts
This question about Wickman threading attachments came from Bob Schneeberger of LD McCauley in Orchard Park, NY. BOB’S QUESTION: Our client needs a thin walled brass part. My screw machine [...]
The Whore of Akron
A Review of The Whore of Akron, by Scott Raab Larry Clayman is a writer, long time fan of TMW, and resident of Akron. He has followed Lebron James since [...]
Making a Beautiful Life
The wonderful definitive biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson spends many pages on the close collaboration between Jobs and his Chief Designer, Jony Ive. Ive was the brains behind [...]
Culver vs Conserve School
“Imagine…” reads the white lettering over the bucolic green, leafy cover of the Conserve School brochure. “The Dream… The School… The Future…” Each set of ellipses in this case means [...]
Industry Scuttlebutt
I was in Northeast Indiana last week for a press junket promoting the manufacturing sector of the region. The first company we visited was the General Motors plant in Roanoke, [...]