Workforce Development
Job Shop Uses 3D Wire Bending and CNC Machining To Find Its Niche
Marshall Manufacturing melds CNC machining and 3D bending to create intricate medical components from small-diameter barstock and tubing. Customer needs spurred the shop to carve out what has become a successful medical-manufacturing niche.
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Succession, Estate and Lifetime Planning
Three natural companions for family business owners.
Read MoreMastercam Touts Varied Training Tool Offering
CAM system developer Mastercam (Tolland, Connecticut) says its selection of learning tools enables customers get up-to-speed with its software at their own pace and via their own preferred learning methods, whether online, through video or through reading. Online offerings include Mastercam University, CamInstructor and Streamingteacher.
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Workforce Training and Development Tool
Imagine the perfect workforce. All employees are willing and able to complete every task required to run the company. When one person is away, there is sufficient backup capability to allow the company to operate effectively.
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The Employee-Owned Advantage
This Ohio shop is 100-percent employee-owned. Thus, both management and shopfloor employees recognize the importance of optimizing efficiency wherever possible. Thanks to a strong willingness to invest in and embrace new technologies, sales-per-employee has increased by more than 50 percent in the last five years.
Read MoreThe Education Gap Catches Up with Us
There is a reason why the industry at large has not noticed the decline in manufacturing vocational education and other manufacturing training programs as much as it otherwise might have.
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Lights, Camera ... Cycle Start
A new show dramatically portrays real-life manufacturing and CNC machining. The pilot episode is now playing.
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An Italian Education
The mood at the 27th edition of Bi-Mu—which attracted more than 60,000 attendees from all over the world—was vibrant, with many exhibitors expressing optimism about future business conditions despite coming off one of the worst years in recent history in 2009.
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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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Overcoming the Fear of Succession Planning
Some things are downright scary, like taxes—especially estate taxes. Can you guess which area in estate tax planning causes the most anguish? Hands down, it’s business succession.
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