Stamper Revels in the Enhanced Process Visibility Delivered by its New ERP System

January 24, 2024

January 24, 2024

Technology Focus: Software for Manufacturing

MetalForming brings you the January installment of our monthly Technology Focus newsletter, this month highlighting Software for Manufacturing.

Stamper Revels in the Enhanced Process Visibility Delivered by its New ERP System

To improve visibility in its processes and avoid attempting to patch together separate software systems for each problem area at the company, Fong Kai Industrial, a stamper in Carrollton, TX, recently brought in a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

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Manufacturing Outlook for 2024—Overall Growth Continues, Albeit at a Slower Pace

With headwinds in place—high capital costs, labor shortages, and the lingering concerns of a recession, to name a few—metal formers and fabricators kick their strategic-planning efforts into high gear. Here’s what’s in store for several critical end-use markets.

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PTM Corporation: Your Source for Tool Design and Build, Prototypes, and High-Volume Production

PTM Corporation has been producing metal stampings since 1972. Our expertise and experience are wide-ranging, to include detail part design, large and small prototype, tool build, and high-volume production. Over the course of five decades, PTM has produced billions of metal stampings for our clients. From small clips and fasteners to Class A stampings, closures, and complex structured assemblies, we’ve done it all!

WATCH: Top 10 Manufacturing ERP Systems in 2024

…with ratings courtesy of ElevatIQ, an independent ERP and digital-transformation consulting firm focusing on business process automation, customer experience, omnichannel and DTC strategies, and marketing automation.

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All Your Workforce Training Needs Solved

Training courses on the topics you need. A unified platform to take the pain out of training management. And user-friendly apps to create and deliver detailed on-the-job training and work instructions. Get it all in the only platform built for manufacturing and fabrication workforces.

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One in Three Metal Formers Expect an Increase in Orders During Q1

Metal forming company executives, while continuing to anticipate stable business conditions for the first few months of 2024, express more optimism about business activity month over month.

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PMA Membership

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.

Lubricant Use/Misuse: Reducing Cost per Stroke

A digital, data-based process implemented recently in the pressroom of the Hopkinsville, KY, plant of automotive Tier-One supplier Metalsa has opened the eyes of management, and plant-floor workers as well, to the reality of lubricant overuse and its associated costs.

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From the January-February Issue of MetalForming

Ease of Use, Structured Learning Make METALFORM EDU a Winner for NN Inc.

The use of PMA’s METAFORM EDU in NN Inc.’s Power division blossomed and has become a training staple.

An Election Year in Washington: A Full Agenda
Manufacturers have much at stake, both to gain and to possibly lose, from legislative and regulatory action or inaction. PMA’s lobbying in Washington does not stop, election year or not.