Amazon.com boasts annual sales of $15 billion primarily through books and consumer items. So, why not open an industrial supply division for the rest of us? Well, they have. Amazon.com’s Industrial & Scientific site sells everything from abrasives and endmills to fasteners and raw materials. Amazon’s Free Super Saver Shipping also applies to orders over [...]
The Manufacturing ISM Report On Business® continued showing mixed results for 2011 Q4. Though manufacturing expanded for the 28th consecutive month, employment dropped nearly 2%. It’s either good news or bad news depending on which side of the paycheck you’re on. PMI grew slightly by 1.9% but the best of news is a 6.5% increase [...]
Corkscrew milling literally takes a new approach to cutting pockets? So much so that Baldor Electric of Gainesville, GA changed up their strategy of using large diameter twist drills in favor of ramping an endmill down in a corkscrew pattern. A one part experiment turned into a new production method now used on multiple parts [...]
According to the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®, August showed contractions over previous months in two of the most important metrics in manufacturing – new orders and production. August PMI remained relatively flat at 50.3 and was the lowest of any of the previous 12 months. According to the Institute for Supply Management, a [...]
A strong industrial market, an emerging South American middle class and a large and skilled Latin American sales force has catapulted Torchmate CNC Cutting Systems to the top of the CNC cutting machine market across Latin America. Torchmate’s Colombia-based South American office is growing rapidly to accommodate the increasing demand for CNC machinery across Latin [...]
Manufacturing employment appears to have developed significant momentum, as the Employment Index readings for the first four months of 2011 are the highest readings in the last 38 years.
For the month of February, Manufacturing in the United States grew at the fastest rate since May 2004. More importantly, the numbers outpaced those of Europe and Asia. While India showed strong growth, China’s numbers dropped for the third straight month. See the rest of the story at The Boston Globe.
The MicroManufacturing an NanoManufacturing Conferences are coming and best of all they are co-located at the Drury Lane Conference Center in Oakbrook Terrace Illinois on April 05, 2011 to April 06, 2011. MicroManufacturing description: Whether the challenge is creating micro features on micro parts or on macro parts, participants in this event will be looking [...]
Constant improvement is a way of life at Haas Automation. The company is always looking for ways to improve its CNC products and give more value to its customers. Normally, these incremental improvements are rolled into production without fanfare – the customer simply gets a better machine. For 2010, however, Haas redesigned its VF product [...]
Jet Edge, Inc. and Chukar Waterjet, Inc. played a role in helping BP stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The companies provided ultra-high pressure waterjet equipment and application expertise to blast away hydrate ice crystals that had formed inside a containment cap at the spill site, clogging the containment system. Jet Edge [...]
