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 ...

When to automate: Not every task or operation is a good candidate for automation. There are a few questions you should answer before you put too much effort into investigating automation. Do you have a volume of parts that need the same thing? If ...

When to automate? There are an unlimited number of reasons and situations that can trigger the move to automation. So how do you stay aware and not miss the signals that its time to do so? Looking at some of the situations that may be a trigger for ...

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 many labor intensive and problematic operations is dealing with welds. I want to talk a bit about what you can do to remove much of the stress from these operations. I cant cover every single aspect or give every detail here but I want to ...

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 ...

One of the benefits of working with so many companies all over the globe is you get to see a lot. I have met some amazing folks and seen so many factories I could write a book. Some of those parts and machines are below. It may be you wondered how ...

Many times companies will ask about a machine they saw online and want to know some basic information. They get that basic information and head down the path of finding some version of that machine. They might look for a larger or smaller version or ...

Polishing, you love it and hate it at the same time just like everyone else. I still think brushed finish exists due a person somewhere getting fed up while polishing and giving up, "That's good enough my arm hurts" is what I bet was said. The ...

As is the case in every market and business costs are key. Doing more with less or getting as much as possible from the resources you have are always important things to look at. When manufacturing is the market in question it can mean many things. ...