Business Disaster Recovery Plan for PMPA Members

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Business Disaster Recovery Plan for PMPA Members

To help member companies serve their customers and to minimize any interruption of service, PMPA has developed a Disaster Recovery Plan Procedure. The Procedure will assist PMPA member companies facing unplanned disasters such as tornados, fires, flooding, etc. to provide means to keep the supply of critical machined products flowing during the emergency.

PMPA will provide assistance to requesting shops to find capable and qualified precision machining shops that are willing to assist in the production of parts during recovery.

PMPA Disaster Recovery Plan (Updated 2017)

CRIBSHEET – #53 Unleaded Brass: Change Your Thinking

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April 2017 | Craftsman’s Cribsheet #53

Unleaded brasses are not necessarily harder to run than leaded brass. They are just different.

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CRIBSHEET – #52 Central Bursts, Chevroning in Cold Drawn Extruded Steels

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March 2017 | Craftsman’s Cribsheet #52

In cold worked steels, failures can be broadly nucleated by localized defects, such as seams, pipe and exogenous inclusions. The second are those which result from exceeding the strength of the material itself.

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Status Report on RoHS Leaded Materials – January 10, 2017

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Status Report on RoHS Leaded Materials – January 10, 2017

The European Commission is almost a year late on providing their decisions on the RoHS exemptions that affect our industry.

The attached report will help you make sense of the review on exemptions for lead in Steel (6a.), Aluminum (6b.), and Brass (6c.) as per the recommendations by the consultants. This information will help you understand and evaluate the likely usage and availability of these leaded materials for our industry going forward.

Existing exemptions remain in effect until the European Commission takes action on the consultants’ report.

RoHS 6abc Exemption Status – January 10, 2017

CRIBSHEET – #51 Lockout/Tagout: What Management Needs to do for Periodic Inspection

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December 2016 | Craftsman’s Cribsheet #51

There are three main areas that are solely the responsibility of management:

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CRIBSHEET – #50 Ductility as Measured by Tensile Testing

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November 2016 | Craftsman’s Cribsheet #50

The ability of a material to deform plastically without fracturing is called ductility. In the materials usually machined in our shops, ductility is measured by determining the percent of elongation and the percent reduction of area on a specimen during a tensile test.

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CRIBSHEET – #49 Three (3) of My Favorite and Most Shared Ideas to Get the Most from Drills in Your Shop

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October 2016 | Craftsman’s Cribsheet #49

Three (3) of My Favorite and Most Shared Ideas to Get the Most from Drills in Your Shop

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CRIBSHEET – #48 Six Reasons Steel is Vacuum Treated

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September 2016 | Craftsman’s Cribsheet #48

Vacuum treated or vacuum degassed steel is used for critical applications that require steel with an exceptionally high degree of structural uniformity, internal soundness and other characteristics that may be impaired by the effects of uncontrolled amounts of dissolved gases. Vacuum degassing treatments, along with various de-oxidation practices, are specified to control the amounts of dissolved gases in the steel.

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