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Shop Management - Page 256
- From The Fabricator
First graduates of AMT program secure jobs
- May 15, 2017
- News Release
The first class of the Advanced Manufacturing Technician Program (AMT) at Jefferson Community & Technical College (JCTC), Louisville, Ky., has graduated, and 100 percent of the students have full-time jobs waiting for them. In addition, the 10 graduates have completed their studies with little to...
- From The Fabricator
Summit Metal Fabricators receives recognition for sculpture
- May 15, 2017
- News Release
Summit Metal Fabricators has received accolades from Engineering News-Record for its work on “CHORD,” a sculpture created in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the William Welles Bosworth-designed mathematics building on the campus of MIT, Cambridge, Mass. The awards, Best National Project...
- From The Fabricator
MSC Industrial Supply presents awards to Kennametal, Stanley Black & Decker
- May 15, 2017
- News Release
MSC Industrial Supply Co., a distributor of metalworking and MRO supplies in Austin, Texas, has selected Kennametal Inc. as Supplier of the Year and Stanley Black & Decker as MRO Supplier of the Year. They were chosen from more than 3,000 companies based on criteria including a strategic approach...
- From The Fabricator
Gas regulator redesigned to be more user-friendly
- May 15, 2017
- Product Release
Victor®, an ESAB brand, has announced the introduction of its EDGE™ 2.0 heavy-duty, high-capacity, single-stage cylinder regulator. It is available for all common gases, including acetylene, LP (propane), oxygen, air, hydrogen, CO2, and inert gases. The regulator features a 2 ½-in.-dia....
- From The Fabricator
Why a timeline analysis of order history matters
- By Shahrukh Irani, Ph.D.
- May 12, 2017
- Article
Job shop managers may say that each product they make is different, but if they put their minds, video cameras, ERP data, spreadsheets, and business analytics tools to work, they probably will find repeating patterns in their order history.
- From The Fabricator
PQ$ Analysis: Why revenue matters in product mix segmentation
- By Shahrukh Irani, Ph.D.
- May 12, 2017
- Article
Part 4 in a series, Dr. Irani describes how revenue plays a role when analyzing a job. Instead of focusing on a sample of products selected using a single criterion—quantity—the PQR Analysis brings revenue into the equation.
- From The Fabricator
Nothing personal, it’s just business
- By Vicki Bell
- May 11, 2017
- Blog Post
Losing your job is difficult, no matter your age. Imagine being 60 and not yet ready—mentally or financially—to retire, and being let go after decades spent working for your employer. It happens. It happened to John.
- From The Fabricator
Minding your P’s, Q’s, R’s--and revenue too
- By Shahrukh Irani, Ph.D.
- May 11, 2017
- Article
Incorporating the PR Analysis (relating product mix and routing similarities) into a PQ Analysis (relating product mix and quantities), creates the PQR Analysis.
- From The Fabricator
T&D Metal Products names director of sales, marketing
- May 11, 2017
- News Release
T&D Metal Products, Watseka, Illinois, a manufacturer specializing in initial prototype design to the delivery of a finished product, has named Seth Yon as director of sales, marketing, and new business development. Yon has 16 years of experience in sales growth, marketing strategy, and...
- From The Fabricator
Analyzing products, demand, margins, and routings
- By Shahrukh Irani, Ph.D.
- May 11, 2017
- Article
Unlike the Toyotas of the world, a typical job shop manufactures a diverse mix of products (P) with different routings (R) produced in various quantities (Q) with varying revenue and profits ($) and demand repeatability (T). These parameters for each different product make up a PQR$T Analysis.
- From The Fabricator
Linear position sensor automatically adapts to number of magnets
- May 11, 2017
- Product Release
Balluff offers a linear position sensor with Ethernet/IP interface. The magnetostrictive system with flexible magnet mode allows the user to work with up to 16 position magnets. Two values can be output for each magnet: position and velocity. The sensor automatically adapts itself to the number of...
- From The Fabricator
Analyzing product mix and volumes: Useful but insufficient
- By Shahrukh Irani, Ph.D.
- May 10, 2017
- Article
The Product Quantity (PQ) Analysis method can be used to segment the product mix based on the annual production volume for each product, which helps determine the type of layout best suited for each product segment. For job shops, however, the tool may be insufficient, because it does not consider varying margins, revenue, routings, and repeatability of various jobs.
- From The Fabricator
PolyU invents bio-inspired antivibration structures
- May 9, 2017
- News Release
The Department of Mechanical Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a bio-inspired, nonlinear antivibration system that can reduce vibration in various mechanical systems. The antivibration structure, which won the 2017 TechConnect Global Innovation Award, was...
- From The Fabricator
Optomec, TNSC form alliance for reselling 3-D printers
- May 9, 2017
- News Release
Albuquerque, N.M.-based Optomec, a supplier of production-grade additive manufacturing (AM) systems for 3-D printed metals and 3-D printed electronics, has announced a strategic alliance with Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (TNSC), a supplier of industrial, specialty, and electronic gases, as well as...
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