May 2017 | Craftsman’s Cribsheet #54
We all know the importance of safety in our shops, so here are 12 simple rules to help eliminate accidents and injuries in the workplace:
Month: May 2017
May 2017 | Craftsman’s Cribsheet #54
We all know the importance of safety in our shops, so here are 12 simple rules to help eliminate accidents and injuries in the workplace:
Precision machined products shipments for April, as captured in PMPA’s Business Trends April Report, declined 20 points or 14.5% from last month’s record high of 138 to 118.
So why are we not bemoaning a 20 point, almost 15% decline in shipments?
Our market has changed.
Our year to date average indicates that 2017 will be a strongly positive year for precision machining. See the special addition to our report on the very last page.
If you are still managing your business based on the hunker-down, avoid-all-risk- thinking that kept you in the game over the past 8 years, you are likely missing some serious opportunities. See our article Change to Thrive
PMPA members can get the full PMPA Business Trends Report HERE
Accredited media can contact gro.apmp@reuabnehcrikm to receive a copy via email
PMPA provides our members with actionable data so that they can calibrate their performance to that of their peers.
Did your sales fall in April compared to March? I’m sure they did.
Are you worrying about that?
Our shops are not. We have data.
Data that helps us maintain our perspective. And sustain our businesses.
Precision machined products shipments for April, as captured in PMPA’s Business Trends April Report, declined 20 points or 14.5% from last month’s record high of 138 to 118.
So why are we not bemoaning a 20 point, almost 15% decline in shipments?
Our market has changed.
Our year to date average indicates that 2017 will be a strongly positive year for precision machining. See the special addition to our report on the very last page.
If you are still managing your business based on the hunker-down, avoid-all-risk- thinking that kept you in the game over the past 8 years, you are likely missing some serious opportunities. See our article Change to Thrive
PMPA members can get the full PMPA Business Trends Report HERE
Accredited media can contact gro.apmp@reuabnehcrikm to receive a copy via email
PMPA provides our members with actionable data so that they can calibrate their performance to that of their peers.
Did your sales fall in April compared to March? I’m sure they did.
Are you worrying about that?
Our shops are not. We have data.
Data that helps us maintain our perspective. And sustain our businesses.
To help member companies serve their customers and to minimize any interruption of service, PMPA has developed a Disaster Recovery Plan Procedure. The Procedure will assist PMPA member companies facing unplanned disasters such as tornados, fires, flooding, etc. to provide means to keep the supply of critical machined products flowing during the emergency.
PMPA will provide assistance to requesting shops to find capable and qualified precision machining shops that are willing to assist in the production of parts during recovery.
PMPA Disaster Recovery Plan (Updated 2017)
Published May 2017
By Sterling Gill III
If the number one challenge today facing our workforce is finding skilled talent, then what is number two? I believe that the number two challenge is: How do we train them?
Published May 2017
By PMPA Staff
When Lloyd Lusk bought his first Davenport screw machine and founded Lusk Quality Machine Products in 1976, few could have predicted that his background in the oil industry and little prior experience in the screw machine business would lead to more than 40 years of success as a custom manufacturer of high-volume precision machined parts for a variety of industries.
Published May 2017
By Miles Free III
All of us likely earned a Ph.D. in how to muddle through the bad times in our businesses with cost cutting, hunker down attitudes and reining in all of those “nice to have” ideas so we can stay focused on what “we need to have.”