Working in the machining industry I hear the term lean manufacturing mentioned a lot. But what does the word lean really mean in this context? And how do you implement it in your company? To help

In honor of this weekends PMPA National Technical Conference, were resharing a podcast we did last year with Elliott May, engineer at BME in Port Huron, Michigan. BME builds original custom attachme

Im dealing with a customer right now who seems interested in some CNC machines Graff-Pinkert has for sale. They told me they needed this type of machine ASAP! And these machines are RARE! They even s

On this weeks classic episode of Swarfcast, were talking about preventing fires inside of machinery. Our guest is Mike Campo, Midwest Regional Sales Manager with Firetrace International, makers of f

Our guest on todays show, Howard Sheldon, grew up working in his familys third generation precision turning company. He planned to eventually take over the business from his father, but unfortunatel

It seems that todays younger generations of workers, such as millennials, want to understand why they are instructed to do their jobs in a certain way more than their predecessors. Many of todays em

My guest on todays show, Thadd Mellott, called us at Graff-Pinkert because he needed a Star SB20 CNC Swiss machine. His company, Circle M Spring, in Warsaw, Indiana, produces medical parts, including

In the last year, our used machinery company, Graff-Pinkert, has been successfully growing our business brokering division. This podcast and Todays Machining World have played a huge part in our mark

Todays episode is Part II of our interview with Roger Duffy, owner of F&F Machine Products. In Part I we touched on Rogers natural entrepreneurial instinct and how he loves to push himself to get ou

How many times has something happened to you that really sucked but then eventually turned out to be a good thing or even a great thing that happened for you? Today, Im going to tell you a story abo