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Random Thoughts About Reshoring and Buying American
By: Peter Zelinski
What will be the effect of the supply chain disruptions of recent years? Here are several observations related to where companies produce and how we think about a manufactured product’s origins.
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Why Towns Want Manufacturing Plants
By: Peter Zelinski
A manufacturing facility can harness and focus the native ability of people growing up in a town, and channel this into livelihoods and homes for the town’s next generation. Is this something we lost sight of and are now seeing again?
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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 5: A Motorcycle Supply Chain in Amish Country
By: Brent Donaldson
Janus Motorcycles clearly outlines where each of its parts is sourced. Its top-selling engine is a 229 cc air-cooled single-cylinder two-valve pushrod motor from a manufacturer in China. The company's co-founder Richard Worsham makes no bones about it being the best choice of engine for his line of Halcyon 250 motorcycles.
4 Steps to a Cobot Culture: How Thyssenkrupp Bilstein Has Answered Staffing Shortages With Economical Automation
By: Peter Zelinski
Safe, economical automation using collaborative robots can transform a manufacturing facility and overcome staffing shortfalls, but it takes additional investment and a systemized approach to automation in order to realize this change.
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Can Connecting ERP to Machine Tool Monitoring Address the Workforce Challenge?
By: Peter Zelinski
It can if RFID tags are added. Here is how this startup sees a local Internet of Things aiding CNC machine shops.
#successionplanning #workforcedevelopment #zaxis
The Tension Between Current and Coming Markets Cannot Be Resolved
By: Peter Zelinski
A healthy business needs to keep that tension alive. That observation is one of several I have come to through my role during the past several years.
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Does Metal Additive Manufacturing Belong in a Machine Shop? The Answer Is Mixed
By: Peter Zelinski
Machining is a necessary capability for metal part production through 3D printing, but succeeding with metal AM demands a role and procedures much different from those of many machining providers.
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10 Ways Additive Manufacturing and Machining Go Together and Affect One Another
By: Peter Zelinski
Forget “additive versus subtractive.” Machining and metal additive manufacturing are interconnected, and enhance the possibilities for one another. Here is a look at just some of the ways additive and machining interrelate right now.
Will the “Great Resignation” Become an Opportunity for Manufacturers? Get Ready for the Returning 3 Million
By: Peter Zelinski
The Great Resignation will become a Great Reapplication when employees currently able to stay out of the workforce return to it looking for something better. Machining employers that are already evaluating candidates for fit, without demanding specific skills coming in, might be positioned well to draw upon this wave.
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IMTS 2022 Review: Attention to Automation Extends Beyond the Robot and the Machine
By: Peter Zelinski
The advance toward increasingly automated machining can be seen in the ways tooling, workholding, gaging and integration all support unattended production. This is the area of innovation I found most compelling at the recent International Manufacturing Technology Show.
#imts #metalworkingfluids #zaxis
5 Tips for You To Get the Most From IMTS
By: Peter Zelinski
Plan, explore, think of the future: Here is how to get the most from the major manufacturing event that none of us have experienced in four years, and that many will be experiencing for the first time.
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Building a Better Business: Lessons for Machine Shops From an Unexpected Source
By: Peter Zelinski
Learning how to be a great manufacturer by listening to the insights of a different industry, homebuilding (which perhaps is not so different after all).
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