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JobBOSS is the most widely used shop management software for the metalworking industry with bar-code data collection, performance analysis, and contact management. Nearly 4,000 hi-tech shops and more than 21,000 shop technology system users rely on JobBOSS for quoting, scheduling, costing, purchasing, inventory, shipping, and quality control. Click here to find out more.

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Feature articles

Cashing in on Complexity
Losing work to overseas suppliers has spelled disaster for many U.S. production shops, but it has also spawned survival strategies for others. Production shops survive offshore competition by running complicated parts on multispindle machines. Read more

Marrying Product and process design
With digital manufacturing, shops take advantage of advances in manufacturing-process-simulation technologies to develop manufacturing processes in collaboration with product design. Read more

Product data available in visual format
Visualization technologies are inexpensive, easy-to-use tools for communication. To get information flowing among its departments and customers for requests for quotes, Apex Design Technology upgraded visualization software and integrated it with the shop management software already in use. Read more

Open for business
People and systems outside design teams need access to critical design data to make sound business decisions. Without it, companies can't respond to fast-changing conditions, so most product-lifecycle-management strategies. Are shifting away from single-vendor. Read more.

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Cutting unnecessary costs. Improving productivity. These are fundamental goals for any successful manufacturing company. Most companies have learned to measure concrete effects of these variables such as reduced scrap or shorter cycle times. But what about the effect of training? American Machinist and Tooling University present this webcast to examine the relationship between training, reduced costs and increased productivity.

Learn how everyone from Fortune 100 companies to small shops take advantage of new approaches for implementing online training programs in their work environment.

Register here for this free event.

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Mark your calendar

October 19 : 2PM EST
Webcast: Expanding your business: How to find customers and more work with an online RFQ system. Click here to register for this free event.

October 27 : 2PM EST
Webcast: Improve Productivity: Implementing online training programs. Click here to register for this free event.

Coming in November: AMERICAN MACHINIST focuses on Process optimization