According to the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®, August showed contractions over previous months in two of the most important metrics in manufacturing – new orders and production. August PMI remained relatively flat at 50.3 and was the lowest of any of the previous 12 months. According to the Institute for Supply Management, a [...]
EXAIR’s new 110 Gallon Chip Trapper™ (patent pending) offers a fast, easy way to clean large coolant sumps. Chip Trapper removes the solids such as chips, swarf and shavings out of used coolants and other liquids. Coolant that used to last only six weeks can now last six months or more. It is ideal for [...]
A strong industrial market, an emerging South American middle class and a large and skilled Latin American sales force has catapulted Torchmate CNC Cutting Systems to the top of the CNC cutting machine market across Latin America. Torchmate’s Colombia-based South American office is growing rapidly to accommodate the increasing demand for CNC machinery across Latin [...]
Manufacturing employment appears to have developed significant momentum, as the Employment Index readings for the first four months of 2011 are the highest readings in the last 38 years.
Move over baby monitor… Now monitoring our industrial babies has never been easier. Never again will the Monday morning crew come in to find the Friday night setup only ran for an hour before an alarm stopped production. The FactoryWiz CNC Monitoring Appliance simplifies the task of monitoring your CNCs. Each FactoryWiz allows you to [...]
Dassault Systemes, makers of SolidWorks, are now offering their CAD software DraftSight as a free download. DraftSight is a professional-grade, open 2D CAD product for users who want a better way to create, edit and view DWG files. DraftSight is easy to use and is available for professional CAD users, students and educators to download [...]
It’s nice to see a company going back to the core of manufacturing. Nearly every consumer product these days is wrapped in plastic, but what most (non-machining) people don’t realize is their plastic gizmo had its start in a CNC machining center in the form of an injection mold. One prominent company is skipping the [...]
For the month of February, Manufacturing in the United States grew at the fastest rate since May 2004. More importantly, the numbers outpaced those of Europe and Asia. While India showed strong growth, China’s numbers dropped for the third straight month. See the rest of the story at The Boston Globe.
The MicroManufacturing an NanoManufacturing Conferences are coming and best of all they are co-located at the Drury Lane Conference Center in Oakbrook Terrace Illinois on April 05, 2011 to April 06, 2011. MicroManufacturing description: Whether the challenge is creating micro features on micro parts or on macro parts, participants in this event will be looking [...]
So often, shops have no company website. Moreover, their email address is from any number of generic sources; machineshopperson@att.net, anothershop@yahoo.com, i-need-a-website@hotmail.com. There’s really nothing wrong with having such an address, but using an email that includes your company’s name is much more professional. In today’s information age, the necessity of having a company website cannot [...]
