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Our Biggest Constraint: How We Think
You buy the same equipment as your competitors. You hire from the same labor pool. The only difference is how you think. Unfortunately, you and your competitors also think the same way. So you are left to compete in a market where, from your customers’ perspective, you’re all the same. So they make decisions mostly based on price. Dr. Lisa Lang of the Science of Business explain some of the common ways our thinking goes wrong and the negative effect this wrong thinking can have on your business.
Seven Ways Supervisors Can Throw a Business Under the Bus… And Not Even Know It
Kevin Ring of Institute of WorkComp Professionals explains why supervisors must respect the role of HR, carefully convey it to employees and be trained on their role relative to HR to handle all legal and personnel issues appropriately.
Tackling the Tough Traits of Tubes
Want to eliminate all of the milling, drilling, cluster punching, coping, set-up and handling that comes with fabricating deformed, bowed and twisted tubing? Consider laser cutting.
Manufacturing Engineers: Holistic Heroes of Safety
Phil La Duke of Rockford Greene explains why the skills and tools of this engineer are essential to the creation of a safe and predictable workplace that improves process capability by reducing variation in each stage of the product lifecycle.
Trail Gas-Shielding Save the Day… Again
Trail gas shielding devices have been shown time-and-again to have a dramatic effect on weld surface mottling. Here’s why.
Why CNC is the Way To Go For Nearly Every Machine Shop
Randy Pearson of Siemens Industry shares some of the many reasons why CNC machines will provide your shop more profit today and more growth opportunities in the future.
Cold As Ice Technology Is a White Hot Breakthrough
Want to get more competitive? Mike Riley reviews the recent advancements, capabilities and advantages of Minimum Quantity Cryogenics machining from MAG that will be on display next month at IMTS, including dramatic increases in material removal rates and extended tool life on difficult-to-machine materials.
No More Necessary Evil
Again and again, deburring causes the economic viability of an entire optimized machining process to decline because this operation has not been included in the process stream from the start. But not any more. Oliver Hagenlocher of EMAG explains how a new electro-chemical machining process is changing all of that.
Sweeten Your Bottom Line: Ways to Do More with Less
Small changes in sawing can yield significant time and cost savings. Here are some ways to avoid unnecessary expenses by understanding the true cost of your operation.
Putting More Pull Into Your Marketing and Sales
Stop Pushing and Start Pulling: When it comes to sales, push is the problem, perhaps the biggest problem those in sales face today. Here are six important ways to pull customers to you.
Steel Cutting N2 vs. O2: To Use or Not To Use, That Is the Question
Shane Simpson of TRUMPF examines why your overall costs are determined by time and secondary operations when cutting with nitrogen assist, and why N2 cutting of gage material should be done on a solid state laser if or a high powered CO2 laser.
A Day in the Life of an Ergonomist
Utility Player: Phil La Duke explores how human factors engineering is used to find the perfect balance of the concurrent priorities between manual labor productivity and worker health and safety.
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