To produce various products at high-volume, industrial manufacturing plants rely on circuit boards and electronics to precisely and efficiently control the process from the receipt of raw materials onward. Over time, these crucial components can be compromised by processes, chemicals, and airborne vapors that promote corrosion. The result can be costly unscheduled production downtime.
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While the core principles of Lean are generally agreed upon (delivering value to the customer, eliminating waste, showing respect for people), one of the places where opinions differ is the application of Lean in Job Shop environments. In Lean-speak, we call these places “High Mix – Low Volume” environments. Because of this inherent variety in part mix and complexity, it does become very difficult to see the benefit of implementing some of the tenets of Lean.
This month’s industry spotlight is brought to us by Del Williams, a technical writer based in Torrance, California. He submitted this interesting piece on surface grinding which we felt could be of interest to our readership. If you’ve got an interesting story that you’d like to share, please submit it for potential placement in the pages of the Gateway Magazine!
As 2021 comes to a close, how did the year stack up compared the tumultuous nature of 2020?
What were some successes? What were some challenges?
Did you reassess your way of doing things at all?
What are you hoping 2022 has in store as we turn to a new year?
2022 will be here in a few short weeks. As is the case in many periodicals, the annual “year in review” writeups will be abound and range in subject matter across the board. With that sentiment in mind, we at The Gateway Magazine thought we’d keep our year end wrap alive by putting a quick focus on all the spotlights we cranked out throughout 2021. As the calendar turns to 2022, please don’t hesitate to reach out and get your company in the queue for your own feature this year. We’d love to make it happen!
We’ve written about this topic before, but it’s been a couple of years, so we figured it was time to resurface it to keep it top of mind. And, further, in this time of supply chain woes and the seemingly impossible task of ordering spare parts, etc., it’s more important than ever to ensure that your manufacturing equipment is being cared for and maintained to keep it running optimally as the shop floor continues to ramp up production runs.
This month’s industry spotlight is brought to us by William Goodwin, vice president of Sales and Engineering for Ajax-CECO-Erie Press,
out of Erie, Pennsylvania.
This month’s industry spotlight is brought to us by Del Williams, a technical writer who lives in Torrance, California.
This month’s industry spotlight is brought to us by Jeff Elliott, who lives in Torrance, California and has written about technical issues for 20 years. Submitted to the Gateway for consideration, we opted to run with it because creating a more sustainable manufacturing environment is something we all ought to be focusing on and utilizing improved efforts to clean and recycle the oils helping to run our operations is a giant step in the right direction.
Manufacturing has been a male-dominated industry through and through. Many industries, like tech or medicine, began as male-dominated. As time went on, those industries shifted into a more equal split. Throughout the 20th century, the manufacturing industry began a shift to lessen the gender disparity but leveled off in the 1970s and hasn’t progressed again in the last five decades. Since the 1970s, the percentage of women in manufacturing has stayed around 30%, barely fluctuating. According to the 2017 United States Census, women make up nearly half of the working population in the U.S. but make up only one-third of the workforce in the manufacturing industry.