Category Archives: Blog

• May 3 2017

  Make-Good

  When required we can get elaborate in the construction of our fixtures.  Focus and vision is required before the investment is made so that adaptations are feasible if the parts change.  …

• Feb 3 2017

  Tour summary, why ...

  We recently had guests from South America and Europe.  After a holistic tour was almost over I was interrupted,  an interesting discussion developed.    The European guest stated excitedl…

• Mar 28 2013

  Time-Technology Ma ...

  

  Is technology really saving us time or competing for every last minute of the day?   The average person lives for less than 1,ooo,ooo hours. A million seems like a big number.  How about if we ju…

• Mar 25 2013

  Making Things go F ...

  

  My Son Andrew recently got our new high machining rate lathe into production.  Compared to our other machines this is more more like piloting a plane.  A vital accessory to the lathe is an autom…

• Mar 10 2013

  Imagine

  

  Computer Management without the development of the Internet. How your work pace would change without electronic communications. With these advances do we have more free time?…

• Feb 28 2013

  Discipline

  

  What is your definition of discipline? Was the origin of your definition a tough father, task master teacher, coach, mentor, higher ranking military person?  To be in the industrial machine…

• Jan 28 2013

  I own this Blunder ...

  

  At eight or so years of age plugging in a 1960’s circa Rambler car radio into an AC outlet. Back then there were three possibilities to power it up, the speaker wires, the single conductor power w…