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As Seen In Modern Machine Shop Magazine. What is the highest-value work your machine tools do—roughing or finishing? I suspect you would say finishing. Therefore, what if you could let your machines do less of the low-value prep machining, and more of the high-value finish machining? How would that change the economics of your process? […]

As Seen In Moldmaking Technology Magazine. What is the highest-value work your machine tools do—roughing or finishing? I suspect you would say finishing. Therefore, what if you could let your machines do less of the low-value prep machining, and more of the high-value finish machining? How would that change the economics of your process? TCI […]

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”, […]

As Seen In Aerospace Manufacturing and Design. Job shops and manufacturers are facing operational challenges involving throughput, efficiency, cost control, and more. Many shops, committed to being lean, feel they are doing everything they can, given the programs they have put in place. The problem with this thinking is, being lean and agile is a […]

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 […]

As Seen In Modern Machine Shop. Machine-ready blanks from TCI can be loaded directly into CNC machining centers, without the need for in-house sawing, grinding, flattening and squaring and outside processing. The blanks are available in aluminum, stainless steel and other alloys, and are deburred and cleaned to the customer’s specifications. They are guaranteed as […]

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 […]