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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Assists longtime customer and leading supplier to the military and aerospace markets Hutchinson Aerospace & Industry, Inc., a manufacturing innovator and global leader in engineered shock, vibration, and motion control solutions, helped a leading supplier of electromechanical systems improve both the performance and quality consistency of their system in a way that reduced overall cost
The company Comairco Equipment is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Since the beginning, they have capitalized on all the opportunities that changes in the industry have presented to evolve, diversify and to remain a viable and innovative partner for its customers. Since 1972, Comairco has been the leader in the field of compressed air.
Cheshire, C.T. – Marion Manufacturing was founded in 1946 by Fred Cramer, in his family’s basement, on Marion Road. His first project – manufacturing clock hands for IBM. Today, Marion continues to be a progressive die stamper with a worldwide customer base in the medical, automotive, aerospace, telecommunications, and electronics industries among others. Current President,
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!
A line of high-performance beryllium free copper-based alloy core pins for high volume, high-heat plastics molding applications has been introduced by Regal Components, Inc. of East Providence, Rhode Island. Regal BFP Type High Conductivity Core Pins are made from C-18000 Beryllium Free copper-based alloy featuring 95-98 Rockwell B (20-25 Rockwell C) hard- ness. Providing 10X
Plastic Design, Inc. is pleased to announce the acquisition of Millennium Plastics out of Groveland Massachusetts! We are thrilled to welcome the skilled and talented team at Millennium into the PDI family. Coming together under the umbrella of our brand was a seamless transition and we look forward to the continued success and partnership. While
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!