Machining
Amish Precision Machining
By Lloyd Graff The variety of small business permutations in America always surprises me. In the rolling prairie of Northwest Indiana-Amish Country—Eli L. runs 3 1-1/4″ RA6 National Acme screw [...]
Are Machinery Trade Shows Becoming Obsolete?
By Lloyd Graff WESTEC as we know it is changing. There will be no show in 2011 in Los Angeles. SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers), which organized the 2010 event, [...]
Machining Marriage
By Lloyd Graff The last time I talked about Brad and Jeff Ohlemacher of EMC Precision Machining they were crowing about convincing President Obama to put on safety glasses before [...]
Betting On Our Economic Future with Alan Beaulieu
By Lloyd Graff Alan Beaulieu of the Institute for Trend Research spoke at the Precision Machined Products Association Management Update and gave his predictions about the next couple of years. [...]
New Bone Screws Could Make it Hard For CNC Swiss Guys
By Noah Graff Great news for people with broken legs, but perhaps terrible news for the guys manufacturing titanium and stainless steel bone screws on CNC Swiss. According to an [...]
Time to Develop Young Machining Talent
By Lloyd Graff The most stunning conclusion I reached from the Precision Machined Products Association (PMPA) Management Update Conference last weekend in Phoenix is that the precision machining operations business [...]
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 [...]
Machining Industry Scuttlebutt
By Lloyd Graff After a devastating year which saw sales drop 70 percent for major world machine tool builders, well capitalized firms like Mori Seiki and DMG are contemplating building [...]
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 Overtime “Lean Manufacturing”?
By Lloyd Graff Is paying overtime rather than bringing in new employees lean manufacturing practice? For adherents to lean concepts, the question of how to handle a “bullwhip” effect where [...]