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helping our whole economy as a member of our industrial team. What hurts is that if ‘Major Steel’ is right, I am wasting a lifetime, and it’s the only one I’ve got.”
Founded on Goals and Objectives that Live On Today
According to its constitution, PMI’s stat- ed goals were:
• To promulgate the use of pressed metal through education of manufacturing indus- tries and others as to the advantages they may gain by its use.
• To establish cordial personal relations between manufacturers of pressed metal products.
ADVANCE WITH STAMPINGS
PRESSED METAL INSTITUTE
1943-1960
1961-1986
1987-Present
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• To devise ways and means to promote a feeling of good will between the manufacturers and their customers.
• To devise ways and means of promoting better working conditions for the employee.
• The mutual study of cost accounting systems and the costs of manufacture.
• To improve and develop commercial methods in the manufacturing and marketing of pressed metal products.
• To obtain and diffuse information on general trade matters. • To establish ways and means of holding regular group
Congratulations to PMA
on its 70th Anniversary
from
Zierick Manufacturing and Gretchen Zierick, 2010 PMA Chair
meetings at such time and places as conditions warrant.
• To cooperate with all government agencies and depart- ments and other organizations in standardization and asso-
ciation activities.
Soon after officially organizing in Ohio, PMI further
defined its objectives and purposes:
• To consider, deal with and secure group opinion and
action on the common management problems of the stamp- ing industry and on any questions, policies and techniques that may be involved in those problems.
Link Systems would like to congratulate The PMA on their 70th year serving the Metal Forming and Metal Fabricating Industry.
We are proud to be sustaining members of the PMA and celebrate our 40th year serving the industry.
Link Systems has led the way in electronics for press production systems from the 1975 introduction of the first successful solid state press control used
in American industry to the first OmniLink II modular integrated press, automation, and monitoring controls using high speed serial network with distributed
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control products increase safety and productivity. Our light curtain safety devices help protect against hazards while allowing accessibility and visibility for operators. Our process monitoring systems help reduce press and tooling damage and reduce scrap.
Link Electric & Safety Control Company
444 McNally Drive, Nashville TN 37211 Tel: 615.833.4168 • Fax: 615.834.1984 www.LinkElectric.com
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The Pressed Metal Institute (PMI) formed in 1942 with 42 charter member compa- nies, and adopted as its logo an octagonal shield representing its eight major servic- es—management, technical and research programs, education and training, safety, meetings, public relations, statistics and government liaison. In 1961, PMI—going strong with 190+ member companies—became known as the American Metal Stamping Association (AMSA), and adopted a new logo, this one a circle represent- ing a more flexible overall program. Membership grew to more than 1000 companies by 1987, when AMSA evolved into the Precision Metalforming Association.
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