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Manufacturing Tour In Thailand
Emily Aniakou, Today’s Machining World’s Managing Editor, is currently on a press tour of Thailand’s manufacturing industry. The following are her first impressions. Monday: The tour has been awesome so [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
A Day in the Life of a Job Shop Guy
“Mike” owns a small job shop in South Carolina. He started from scratch building a machining business from a turret lathe and a mill. He loves the business and asked [...]
Looking back at 2011. Ahead to 2012.
Wow, what an interesting and surprising year. Osama Bin Laden knocked off. Muammar Gadhafi whacked. Kim Jong-il dead. Tough year for bad guys. Mubarak in jail, Bashar al-Assad in big [...]
Tim Tebow. Enough Already?
I’ve been anxious to see Tim Tebow, the controversial Denver Broncos quarterback people love to hate because he is unabashedly committed to his religious faith and fearlessly shows it to [...]