Basics

Basics

7 Tips for Successfully Leveraging Social Media as a Machine Shop

Machine shops are finding new ways to engage potential customers and forge identity on social media. These best practices provide some guidance for getting started. 

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Top Shops

“Top Shops” Human Resources Honoree Offers Two Creative Tips for Employee Prospecting

Go to where you might discover the candidates who could turn into strong players in your shop. You have to plant seeds, the shop owner says.

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Wastewater Treatment: Why Companies Should Care and What They Can Do About It

Shops and plants should be concerned about wastewater treatment for many reasons, and the best way to turn genuine concern into effective solutions starts with an awareness of current options for wastewater-treatment equipment.

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Basics

Buying an HMC: What Makes Horizontal Machining Centers Different

Is it time to move up to a horizontal machining center? Let’s consider some of the structural, application and design factors that differentiate HMCs from vertical machines.

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Basics

Understanding the Different Choices in Metal and Fluid Recycling

This recorded presentation discusses options including separators, shredders, briquetters, centrifuges, and above- and below-ground chip handling.

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Measurement

How to Anticipate Machining Errors before Parts Are Scrapped in QA

In L&S Machine's system for data-driven manufacturing, the data describe a good day.

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Basics

What to Know About Adjustable Bore Gages

These comparative instruments must be set to the required nominal size, and there are a number of ways to do this.

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Basics

Design vs. Manufacturing — Can We All Just Get Along?

The relationship between these two basic departments is critical to the success of any manufacturing company.

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Basics

Conference to Focus on Understanding, Implementing Industry 4.0 Technologies

The Integr8 conference will be hosted by the Michigan manufacturing association Automation Alley and will feature material revolving around eight “disruptive” technology areas related to advanced manufacturing.

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Basics

Why (and How) to Benchmark Your Machining Business

Doug Woods, president of AMT—The Association For Manufacturing Technology, shares the importance of benchmarking your manufacturing business and how the Top Shops program and conference can help.

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