Articles
Prescription for Procrastination
If you surveyed any 10, 100 or 1,000 people as to their favorite day of the week, the hands down winner would undoubtedly be—tomorrow.
Read MoreVolvo Stops Throwing Away Caps and Profits
Keeping with the Volvo Group’s strong tradition of high-performance and environmental excellence, personnel at the company’s Motor Grader Assembly Line recently sought out ways to improve its masking operations...
Read MorePretreatment for Aluminum Castings
Question: We paint aluminum sand castings for an exterior application.
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Oscar Unveiled
Every year, dozens of Oscar statuettes are awarded to the men and women of film in recognition of their contributions to cinema. But at Chicago-based R.S. Owens & Company—the company that manufactures the prestigious award—the employees are the real stars of the show...
Read MorePainting Stainless Steel
Question: I was interested in your solution for painting the stainless steel medicine cabinet, but I was hoping you would also include the “government job” solution done at work.
Read MoreWhat Do Employees Want?
A survey of workers in various industries confirms what most supervisors have long suspected—communications between them and their people could be vastly improved.
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Printed Circuit Boards: Final Finish Options
The global printed circuit board industry has experimented with various solderability preservatives including organics, immersion tin, immersion silver, electroless nickel/immersion gold and others. This article examines the strengths and weaknesses of each...
Read MoreSummer of the Cicada
Unless you’ve spent your summer living in a cicada burrow, you have probably heard about —and maybe even experienced—the emergence of the “Brood X” (brood 10) cicadas in portions of the Eastern United States.
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The Burn that STILL Burns, Part 3
In November 1978, Products Finishing magazine published “The Burn That Burns,”1 which examined true burn and false burn from bright nickel and chromium systems, as well as some of the remedies. Twenty-six years later, plating practitioners continue to be challenged and frustrated by this aspect of the process, prompting this updated and expanded review. Here, in part two of this three-part series, our authors analyze three of the four major sources of false burn…
Read MoreE-quation for Success
Adding E-Coat E-quals E-xpanded Opportunities for Job Shops and OEMs...
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