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Industry Scuttlebutt
Costa Rica is the hot spot these days for the medical machining business. With the free trade agreement with Central America, medical companies are ignoring Puerto Rico, which has become [...]
The Road Not Taken
It was one of those “Oh no” moments. I received a call from a former employee saying a mutual friend, Al, who I had had a falling out with, had [...]
Pitney Bowes–Another Warner & Swasey?
Pitney Bowes, the postal management company, is a hated name at my office, and probably yours too, if like us you are stuck with a machine and a contract you [...]
Making Parts in Hoosier Land
In mid-December I trekked 3 hours from Chicago to Northeast Indiana for a tour of manufacturing companies put on by the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership and Indiana Michigan Power. [...]
Lucas Oil Won the Super Bowl!
The New York Giants won the Super Bowl on Sunday and certainly enhanced the NFL brand and the Eli Manning brand. But the real marketing coup goes to Forrest Lucas, [...]
Problems Turning Tiny Parts on CNC Swiss
Dear Shop Doc, We have a CNC Swiss that we use to turn very small precise parts. When a part has several different diameters I notice that when one diameter [...]
Manufacturing in Thailand – the “Detroit of the East”
Emily Aniakou, Today’s Machining World’s Managing Editor, was invited to join 11 other journalists from the U.S. and Canada (six in the automotive sector and six in the food industry sector) by [...]
Industry Scuttlebutt
The news that Japan will show a net deficit in trade for 2011 is another signal of a shifting economy that currently favors North American manufacturing. Europe is in a [...]
My Dinner With Newt
I just returned from a long weekend of political-tourism in Charleston, South Carolina. It didn’t start out as a Newt-Mitt chocolate kind of trip, it just happened. My oldest son [...]
No No No No!
Should I plan as if I am going to live forever, or like I’m living on borrowed time? None of us really knows how long we will be allotted on [...]