Precision Holemaking at High Cpk
Makers of fluid-power components, small-engines, and gears are finding honing is a first-place winner for producing quarter-micron dimensional accuracy with precision geometry and surface finish.

Increase Productivity by Hard Milling Stainless Steels
For years, machining stainless steel has been a time consuming and costly enterprise. The desirable combination of corrosion resistance and mechanical strength of stainless steel is challenging to productively and economically machine. Many applications today also require that the stainless steel be hardened, which can make machining these materials with indexable carbide inserts an even more difficult enterprise.

11 Criteria For Selecting The Best ERP System Replacement
It's no light matter to replace your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. By definition, the ERP system is your information backbone and reaches into all areas of your business and value-chain. Replacing it appears to be a difficult and painful process, but done right, it can open unlimited business opportunities. The cornerstone of this effort is finding the partner that can show you how to make this hard transition easy, and a specialist with the confidence to walk side-by-side with you until your goals are achieved.

Your ERP provider must be part of your vision. They must have faced these challenges many times in their history and learned how to help manufacturers adopt new technologies. The future of your business depends on whether they have successfully made the leap from one technology curve to the next and continue to innovate and deliver technologies, which help companies like yours lead that change.

5 Ways ERP can help you implement Lean
Becoming lean has been a goal of most companies over the last few years. Why is lean so popular? Lean delivers what companies really need in today's highly competitive world: shorter lead times, improved quality, reduced cost, increased profit, improved productivity, and better customer service.

To become Lean, a company must take a hard look at processes and practices to identify those that do not… The continuous pursuit of waste elimination is the essence of Lean.

Production processes and production activities can be directly addressed in this value vs. non-value campaign. What does directly in the product, and what doesn’t add directly to product value is fairly easy to see. As Lean thinking has evolved and the concepts broadened, Lead advocates have come to recognize that ERP and Lean work together very well – each supporting and enabling the most important objectives of the other. The 5 lean principles of value definition and specification, value stream mapping, uninterrupted f

Keys to ISO Success
When a California manufacturer of hydraulic, pneumatic, and electronic systems set out to be ISO certified with zero findings, everyone told them it could not be done. Exact Software helped Apex Design Technology defy the odds.

Toolmaker Slashes Delivery Times by Going Lean
EIMO Americas has been utilizing Lean Manufacturing practices to streamline processes from quoting to delivery, standardizing on the Cimatron software to support these processes throughout its tooling operations.