Published July 2017
By Miles Free III
What are the indicators we use to guide our outlook, planning and investment?
Author: Debbie Feiler
Published June 2017
By Sterling Gill III
There is a movement growing. This movement is about opening doors. Why should we open our doors? You may ask to whom are we opening our doors? The answer is two words: skilled workforce.
Published June 2017
By PMPA Staff
PMPA member Aneesa Muthana, president and owner of Pioneer Service Inc., was one of only 100 women in manufacturing honored by The Manufacturing Institute’s STEP Awards for excellence in manufacturing in April this year.
Published June 2017
By Miles Free III
Your purpose is more than making products, so why isn’t your focus?
Published May 2017
By Sterling Gill III
If the number one challenge today facing our workforce is finding skilled talent, then what is number two? I believe that the number two challenge is: How do we train them?
Published May 2017
By PMPA Staff
When Lloyd Lusk bought his first Davenport screw machine and founded Lusk Quality Machine Products in 1976, few could have predicted that his background in the oil industry and little prior experience in the screw machine business would lead to more than 40 years of success as a custom manufacturer of high-volume precision machined parts for a variety of industries.
Published May 2017
By Miles Free III
All of us likely earned a Ph.D. in how to muddle through the bad times in our businesses with cost cutting, hunker down attitudes and reining in all of those “nice to have” ideas so we can stay focused on what “we need to have.”
Published April 2017
By Sterling Gill III
Precision machining experts Core Powered, Peel School District and PMPA collaborated to sponsor a “Future of Manufacturing Technology and Talent” event for ninth to 12th grade students at the Hansen School of Technology in Mississauga, Ontario.
Published April 2017
By PMPA Staff
While Hannes Precision was established in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1973, the company’s roots go back to the 1940s in a small town of 7,000 people in Switzerland.
Published April 2017
By Miles Free III
The precision machining industry, NAICS 332721, is composed of 3,682 shops in the United States. Our shops are also called “job shops” or “contract manufacturers.”