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• 'Future shock?' We ain't got no steenking future shock: we've come a long way in almost 40 years. Not only do we expect change, we demand it 

  Back in the 1970s, Alvin Toffler, a futurist--whatever that is--wrote a book entitled Future Shock. It was about how change, both technologically...

  05/01/09 by Pete Nofel · More from publication

• It's not a tangled web: establishing a shop's basic presence on the web is easy and can help grow a unique business identity 

  Manufacturing has seen remarkable advances in how products and goods are manufactured, especially since the introduction of the personal computer....

  05/01/09 by Jay Pierson · More from publication

• Probing the unknown: use of a measuring probe and CNC measuring cycles can make life much easier than finding the zero point manually 

  In CNC production, it is common to measure tools and workpieces by hand on the machine. The zero point is determined by scratching, and the values...

  05/01/09 by Randy Pearson · More from publication

• Formulating success—part III: dealing with offshore competition, and winning, means examining what a company does best and then formulating a strategy to play to that strength. This is the third of a three-part series 

  The prices quoted by offshore sources look so attractive that many manufacturers believe there is no way to compete by remaining in the U.S. Here...

  05/01/09 by Mike Collins · More from publication

• Industrial distribution market weak, but may be stabilizing 

  A survey of industrial distributors shows weak markets, but also a possible stabilization in the industrial sector based upon an uptick during the...

  05/01/09 · More from publication

• Gibbs and Associates celebrates quarter-century mark 

  Gibbs and Associates, Moorpark, CA, celebrated the 25th year of its founding. The company is the developer of GibbsCAM software for programming CNC...

  05/01/09 · More from publication

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