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From Job Shop Chaos To Lean Order
Classic lean manufacturing principles are practically taken as gospel, but benefits can be elusive for manufacturers that produce a variety of parts in low volumes. This shop took a different approach to lean—one aided by software that helped identify a more efficient machine layout based patterns in part routings.
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Industrial Production Up 4.6% in September
Consumer durable goods industrial production in September was up 4.6% compared to September 2009.
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Renishaw Practices the Pyramid it Preaches
Shops can get more of these pyramids using Renishaw’s pyramid.
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Props to Center Rock
Pennsylvania’s Center Rock played a key role in the successful extraction of the 33 trapped miners in Chile.
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Party like it’s 1187!
Sometimes the stars align or the planets do weird things, but this year it’s our current month of October that is causing cosmic vibrations.
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Faster Production of Inside Threads
Modern tools, control and software create a range of options for producing inside threads efficiently.
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Machine Tool Unit Sales Up 74% Month Over Month
According to USMTC, machine tool sales in August were 73.8% (units) and 105.0% (real dollars) more than in August 2009.
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Machining Operations You Might not have Seen
Machining is, in addition to all of its other virtues, just really cool.
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Don’t Make Ugly Parts
Ugly, rusty parts are avoidable on today’s wire electrical discharge machines. “Get your technical people to be smart on paper” is the suggestion I give to companies interested in contributing editorial content.
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