Company anniversaries.(Industry News)
Wheelabrator Group, LaGrange, GA, celebrated its 100th anniversary.
It was founded in Pittsburgh in 1908. The company is a provider of
surface preparation and finishing answers.
Hypertherm, . . .
April manufacturing tech consumption down.(Industry News)
April U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $396.47
million, according to The Association For Manufacturing
Technology--AMT--and the American Machine Tool . . .
Resurgence predicted in Latin American manufacturing.(Industry
News)
Latin America, once thought as a growth area for manufacturing but
overwhelmed by competition from the Far East, will soon see a
manufacturing revival, according to comments published by Chris . . .
And the rich get richer.(Industry News)
According to the June 18 "Snapshot" by Lawrence Mischel,
of the Economic Policy Institute, pay inequality in the U.S. continues
to worsen. Huge gains at the top of the income scale have been . . .
Fuel hikes prompt work changes.(Industry News)
Rising fuel prices are changing company work policies in order to
fight gasoline and diesel prices. A mid-size manufacturer is asking its
employees to shift from a five-day, eight-hour work week to . . .
Home-grown expansion.(Industry News)
North American manufacturers consider the U.S. the most desirable
country for expansion during the next three years, according to a survey
released by the National Association of . . .
The industry is changing, slowly.(Letters)
I would like to say thank you on behalf all the women who work in
manufacturing for raising awareness of women in manufacturing. As a
woman who has worked with industrial lasers for almost nine . . .
Cube art.(Letters)
Congrats on yet another great editorial [Let's Make Machining
a Girlie Profession, ibid]. The other female trainer here at Mazak and I
both have it hanging up in our cubes. And, we sure are . . .
The bull of the woods; The brilliant fool.(Cartoon)
HOW DID YOU DO IT? IT'S ABSOLLITELY IMPOSSIBLE TO DRILL THOSE
HOLES WRONG WITH THAT JIG!
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
HOW COLILD YOU? WHY,BRILLIANT BRAINS HAVE FIGURKKED ALL THAT OUT TO
MAKE SUCH . . .
Proud to be a woman-owned shop.(Letters)
I am the board secretary--as well as office manager--of a machine
shop and custom manufacturer. I recently received a copy of Modern
Applications News. Upon skimming the pages I came across your . . .
Find the best-qualified, no matter what they
are.(Letters)
Just a couple of minor comments regarding your editorial
[Let's Make Machining a Girlie Profession, ibid].
I believe Lionel Trains made a pink electric train long before G.I.
Joe donned his first . . .
Taken as an equal.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
I just read your editorial "Let's Make Machining a Girlie
Profession" [MAN, Vol. 42, No. 6, June 2008, pg 6]. I just wanted
to say "thanks," what a great article!
I have been with the company for . . .
CNC is the obvious choice for the future-minded shop: CNC offers
so many advantages to metalworking shops that it isn't a case o
Quick setup is easier than ever, as CAD programming translates into
the controller faster than ever. Using any number of data transfer, from
Ethernet, to wireless, to a memory stick, developers can . . .
Advice for getting the most from an IMTS visit; Stay on task, but
be flexible when walking the show floor, and mix both managers
Whenever I fill out a survey concerning IMTS it generally asks
questions about our company. It wants to know our size, number of
employees, and the industries we serve. After that bit of . . .
Heads in the sand; We've become an inward-looking society
since we first set foot on the moon, and it's not something of
which w
It happened 39 years ago last month. When it took place, many of
the readers of MAN weren't even born. It was the biggest event of
the 20th Century, and I'd say it was the high point in . . .
Potential CAD/CAM breakthroughs: the future of CAD/CAM as it
relates to CNC may be in for a revolution if companies aren't
selfi
Today's CAM marketplace has matured into a commodity market.
For the most part, CAM systems have the same basic capability: they are
able to program CNC machine tools. There are slight differences . . .
Get clean with a parts washer.(New Products)
The Orbit 800 rotary table parts washer incorporates a touch-screen
control panel. It has a 750 Ib-capacity stainless steel wire mesh basket
that is 5" deep and 31.5" in diameter at a loading . . .
Diamonds are a dresser's best friend.(New Products)
The hDD-hybrid diamond dressing-combines the toughness of metal
bonding with the natural porosity of a vitrified bond structure,
comparable to porosity found in vitrified CBN grinding wheels. . . .
Hot stuff in furnace design.(New Products)
The 5000 AM Series alloy muffle furnaces are equipped with a
corrugated alloy retort which separates the chamber refractory and
heating elements from the workload and atmosphere to minimize scale . . .
Minimum lube roller guides.(New Product)
Linear Motion Roller Guides offer low, consistent friction factors,
which allow tighter control of positioning, small incremental moves, and
repeatability. There are small differences in . . .
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