Manufacturing Engineering, January 2024
Manufacturers continue to contend with a shrinking pool of skilled workers while the skill requirements for entry-level factory positions grow more demanding. Making matters worse, most employers lack the time and resources needed to prepare new employees for present-day shop floor work.
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MILTERA MACHINING RESEARCH CORP. Mike Blackburn refers to his 20-person shop as an “enabler.” That’s because he and his team at Miltera Machining Research Corp. in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, develop and prove out manufacturing processes, then provide turnkey...
SMITH & WESSON To support new product launches, Smith & Wesson needed to increase throughput of its production of revolver frames. However, the firearms manu-facturer wanted to avoid, if possible, having to add new machine tools to ac-complish its production...
TRUE MARK ENGRAVING CO. Some would say that True Mark Engraving Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, goes a bit overboard with its tooling rituals, but according to owner and President Dave Timura, the shop's meticulous methodology maintains process consistency and ensures no...
