Every heat treater has two enemies working against your ability to thrive and grow everyday: The Labor Drought Time…Never Enough With these two enemies in your face every day, it is important for every heat treater to think through how to get work done differently in order to... Continue Reading
Metal Treating Institute, the largest nonprofit network of commercial heat treaters in the world and Furnaces North America, North America’s largest heat treat only trade show and technical conference, is excited to announce it has established a new honorary award for the heat treating... Continue Reading
Wholesale prices rose at a brisk pace in May as inflation pressures mounted on the U.S. economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. The producer price index, a measure of the prices paid to producers of goods and services, rose 0.8% for the month and 10.8% over the past year. The... Continue Reading
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) is warning plant operators that ransomware attacks are increasing in the manufacturing sector. Trade organization The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) cautioned plant operators this month that ransomware attacks against manufacturing... Continue Reading
Trucking and warehousing companies added 31,000 jobs last month as pandemic-driven e-commerce growth appears to be waning, Companies on the front lines of supply chains pulled back hiring in May amid signs that the boom in e-commerce demand is waning and consumers are shifting spending from... Continue Reading
Vision, mobility and enhanced safety features make robotics ideal for labor automation, says Divya Prakash, director of business consulting at SICK. Because labor availability is one of the key challenges for warehouse operators, a great more automation is entering the warehouse, Prakash says.... Continue Reading
The last 10 years have brought tremendous growth in artificial intelligence. Consumer internet companies have gathered vast amounts of data, which has been used to train powerful machine learning programs. Machine learning algorithms are widely available for many commercial applications, and some... Continue Reading
Higher Mortgage Rates Have Dampened New Home Sales New single-family home sales tumbled 16.6% to 591,000 units at the annual rate in April, declining sharply for the fourth straight month and dropping to a post-pandemic low. The steep hike in mortgage rates and affordability issues have... Continue Reading
Summer is on the horizon, and for many of us, those above average temperatures have already hit. Unfortunately, higher temperatures and higher energy bills go hand in hand if not properly managed. Coupled with the volatile electricity and natural gas prices as of late, many businesses are looking... Continue Reading
The Department of Defense hopes to begin implementing its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program requirements in contracts in May 2023, as part of an effort to prod hundreds of thousands of defense contractors to better protect their networks and controlled unclassified... Continue Reading
If you’re not already DFARS 252.204-7012 and NIST 800-171 compliant, NOW is the time to get started to avoid losing current and future Federal contracts. It’s not too late. Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 252.204-7012 has been the buzz of the defense... Continue Reading
If you are like most heat treaters, the last 24 months have been some of the most challenging times in our history of being in business. Lost sales, increased costs, and a lack of qualified employees have plagued everyone in the heat treating industry. The good news is the economy is on the... Continue Reading
