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?
Browsing: Industry Spotlight
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.
This month we put the spotlight on Plastic Design Inc., and we thought we’d further the insight by talking shop about what plastic weld manufacturing is, the advantages of working with plastic, and the differences between machining two common forms of material, acrylic and polycarbonate. Much of the following verbiage was originally presented in Plastic Design Inc.’s blog and repurposed with permission for the advantage of our Gateway Magazine readers. Let’s dive right in.
CNC is defined as Computer Numerical Control. A CNC equipped machine would be a machine that moves, operates, or is controlled by a computer with a program. The program tells the machine a lot of useful information, such as:
The manufacturing industry is expected to take a turn for the better in 2021. Amongst the global pandemic, manufacturing growth was slim to none but capacity levels and revenues are almost back to normal.