Top Shops
Five Design for Manufacturability Tips for Designers
Leading machine shops offer design for manufacturability (DFM) advice to customers to reduce machining cost and lead time. Here are five examples.
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Top Shops Profile: C&M Machining
C&M Machining was the 2016 Top Shops Honors Program winner in the category of business strategies.
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The Role of Employee Incentives in Successful Automation
This shop doesn’t emphasize lights-out production so much as leveraging automation while the lights are still on. One key to this is a wage and compensation plan that rewards employees for maximizing automation’s impact.
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2016 Benchmarking Executive Summary Now Online
Findings from this year’s Top Shops benchmarking survey can be accessed in this digital Executive Summary.
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Contributors to the Top Shops “Hall of Fame”
My column for September 2016's issue described the new Top Shops logo we had machined. Did you know that we also asked Top Shops to machine their own logos for us to display at IMTS?
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Top Shops Profile: Tech Manufacturing
Tech Manufacturing was the 2016 Top Shops Honors Program winner in the category of shopfloor practices.
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The Story Behind the Aluminum Top Shops Logo
A key component of Modern Machine Shop’s Top Shops display in Booth W-10 is a Hall of Fame, where company logos machined by past winners of the magazine’s annual benchmarking program are displayed. Also included is a machined version of Modern Machine Shop’s new Top Shops logo.
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Top Shops “Hall of Fame” Workpieces
For Modern Machine Shop’s IMTS 2016 booth, our magazine asked former winners of our Top Shops benchmarking survey to machine their company logos for us to display in a sort of “hall of fame” area.
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Access the 2016 Top Shops Executive Summary
Read analysis and consider the data gathered in our magazine’s sixth annual Top Shops benchmarking program.
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Using Benchmarking to Establish a Path to Machine Shop Success
Our Top Shops benchmarking survey aims to cover everything from A to Z in identifying machine shop operational excellence and best practices. The goal is to provide shops with intelligence they can use to more effectively pave a path to success.
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