What is finishing? Finishing is that last step that makes your parts better than the rest. It also helps bolster the feeling of quality that people get when they see and touch your parts. If you have ever touched a table or an appliance that had a ...

I wanted to take a moment to share what we are currently working on. As always I listen to the feedback and questions that come in on different machines. We want to make things as simple and easy as is possible anyplace we can. We work with the ...

One of the topics that gets kicked around often but is not well understood is finishing. The term finishing is very general and can mean any number of things. To some its a manual process with a palm sander and to others it may be a pass through a ...

One of the common things I hear is "That is how we do it" and more so at older companies. While established processes can be good to hold on to firmly for quality there are some cases where its less helpful. We all have things in our day to day ...

One of the sticking points you will likely run into is how do you know what you need? Finishing is what we know so we are going to stay on that branch of machines here. Many of the general concepts will apply to all manner of machine but finishing ...

The stroke sander is one of the machines that some may not have ever even seen before. Then there are some that will have seen one in the past but were not sure what it was for. Lets dip into what a stroke sander is and what its for. I will just ...

There comes a point in every machines life where you have to look at letting it go. In some cases this can be clear and in others it can be a bit more hidden from view. When you find yourself spending 10% or more of the machines purchase price on ...

One thing I learned early on in machinery was to look to the future. Many times folks will look at a situation with blinders on. The issue here is they miss the larger picture and only see the topic right in front of them. If you focus on just the ...

There were so many good questions sent my way on this topic I wanted to do a follow up. So what I am going to do is answer some of the questions here so more folks can have the same information. These are just some of the more common ones and please ...

When the topic of automation comes up cutting costs is always part of the conversation. More often than not people do not understand the full scope of what this means. "I need to cut costs what can automation do for me?" Labor tends to be the first ...