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Motto of the Month President's Corner Adding Another Key Distributor for Our Standard Blanks Line McMaster-Carr W.W. Grainger MSC Industrial Supply Amazon ...and now Fastenal Over 50 years ago, we began offering the service of providing cut-to-size material to customers’ exact specifications. More recently, in the last 20 years were offered the opportunity to provide […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner Winning in Workforce Development How many times have we heard shop owners complain about training their workers only to see them leave to work for other shops or even start their own businesses? If you're like me, the answer is "plenty." But what if we didn't train our machinists? […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner The Reluctant "Politician" Back in 1994 when I was serving as the president of the LA Chapter of NTMA, I met a fairly new member during a chapter meeting/tour of the C-17 facility in Long Beach. It was pretty clear from the outset that he was a person that […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner What a Surprise! California Supremes Break Toward Business As my son, Ben, remarked, “For a second, I thought I was reading The Onion”. Last week, the California Supreme Court issued a decision on a case that had been pending before it since 2008. Referred to as the “Brinker Case”, […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner The Workers' Comp Classification Scam Over the past few months, it's been very busy (too busy, it sometimes seems, to have written a monthly blog). But I'm back at it, and intend to stay on track here at the keyboard. And to begin 2012, I need to let off […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner Today's Modern Machine Shop - Increase Throughput, Minimize Waste, and Reduce Cost On Thursday November 3rd at 2:00PM Eastern I'll be hosting a webinar with Modern Machine Shop Online talking about ways to increase throughput, minimizing waste and reduce costs. Mark Albert, Editor-in-Chief of Modern Machine Shop Magazine, will […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner "Continuous Improvement Helps Us Evolve" TCI Achieves ISO 9001:2008 and AS9100C Certification Having been certified to earlier versions of ISO and AS quality management systems for many years, in August we were granted certification to the latest revision of the ISO and AS quality management systems standards, namely ISO […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner "Make It in America" On a recent road trip to the east coast, I took with me a new book that promised to speak to the issues that I wrote about last month - some of the same ones that NTMA Chairman Grady Cope spoke to this past spring: […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner "Marketing Manufacturing in America" At the recent MFG Conference in Chandler, Arizona, NTMA 2011 Chairman Grady Cope of Reata Engineering Machine Works in Englewood, CO gave what I feel was a passionate case for the critical importance of rebuilding a manufacturing base in America. He called it appropriately, Marketing […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner "Recognizing People Who Give Back to the Industry" Each year around this time, trade associations and non-profits of all stripes gather to elect and install the leaders who will guide their organizations in the year to come, while taking time to recognize and celebrate the efforts and accomplishments of […]