| Protect Your Business Amidst Tariff Changes | Wipfli manufacturing industry leader Mike Devereux explains the implications of tariffs and advises manufacturing-company leaders to:- Carefully assess their supply chains
- Diversify supplier relationships and
- Implement strategic financial planning to protect their operations.
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| MetalForming's Tool & Die ebook | MetalForming’s first ever Tool & Die ebook is now available! This is a homage to the stamping die—and its creators. Included in the ebook:- Major stages of a metal forming die from design through build to storage.
- Tutorial on the design and test of a strip layout.
- Sage advice and learned lessons of working tool- and diemakers.
- And more!
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| PODCAST: Economic Uncertainty and Tax Strategies | | Wipfli’s Devereux also joined Destiny of Manufacturing podcast host Dean Phillips for a deep dive into the future of manufacturing, and a discussion on navigating economic uncertainty. Devereux also provides some key tax strategies that could impact your business in 2025 and beyond. | | |
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| OSHA Case: Machine-Guard Exposure and Inadvertent vs. Intentional Use | | At a sheet metal shop at the Arnold Air Force base in Tullahoma, TN, journeyman sheet metal workers for an aerospace-engineering company use various types of fabricating equipment, including a power shear. Unfortunately, a fingertip accident occurred. This article expalins how the OSHA Review Commission unanimously reversed a finding of inadequate machine guarding. As a result, it vacated the 1910.212 standard citation due to its perception of intentional circumvention of the guarding. | | |
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| Put Your Company at a Competitive Advantage | | Position your company as an industry leader when you utilize PMA resources—ITR Econ Trends reports, trade publications, One Voice and FABTECH trade shows. A PMA membership will provide your company and all of its employees with a range of valuable industry resources that are designed to help you become more connected, more informed, more efficient, more competitive and ultimately more profitable. |
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| Business-Software Suite Tackles Program Management, Profit Optimization | | In March 2024, automotive Tier One supplier Martinrea International Inc. launched Mindcan Inc., a software company offering solutions to help enhance manufacturing-program management, profit optimization and sustainability reporting, among other capabilities. Martinrea, which developed and implemented the solutions several years before, launched Mindcan to make the software solutions accessible to a wider audience. | | |
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| Mid Atlantic Machinery Generously Donates to Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology | | Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, Lancaster, PA, has received a gift of more than $104,000 to its foundation from machine-tool and fabrication-equipment distributor Mid Atlantic Machinery, Harrisburg, PA. The funds will provide scholarships to students in the school's Metals Fabrication and Welding Technology associate degree program. | | |
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| WATCH: MetalForming LIVE On the Shop Floor 2025: Automation Case Studies | This archived session of MetalForming LIVE features two case studies of automation technology in action:- Pennant, Inc.’s facility in Sabina, OH, has committed to automation and currently utilizes cobots on several of its production lines to improve efficiency, accommodate labor shortages and reduce operator fatigue.
- Argon Industries’ employment of fabrication automation is second to none, including three turret punch presses outfitted with load/unload technology, and a new robot-tended press brake.
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