Evan Doran

2 weeks ago | mmsonline.com | Evan Doran

Efficiency isn’t a mere buzzword for sustainability. It’s a cost-saver, for OEMs as well as for shops. Across an organization, a focus on efficiency can improve communication between departments, reducing delays and eliminating confusion over objectives. In a facility, prioritizing efficiency can decrease energy costs and help ensure employees are working on tasks worth their time.

2 weeks ago | mmsonline.com | Evan Doran

A standardized metrology process is a successful metrology process, but this goal grows more complex as the types of measurements needed increases. Deublin, a multinational manufacturer of rotating unions, knows this to be true — with more than 1,000 turning operations across a wide variety of components, the company long had difficulties standardizing its measurement practices, much less automating them.

1 month ago | mmsonline.com | Evan Doran

MSP Manufacturing, a job shop on the edge of Bloomington, Indiana, specializing in aviation and defense, has seen a lot of change in the last few years — and equally much growth. Johnny Goode, its current president, comes from a law enforcement background and only started with the company (and the manufacturing industry) around 2020.

1 month ago | mmsonline.com | Evan Doran

Starrett’s families of indicators share numerous design commonalities, but manufacturing the many intricate differences between them requires a diverse range of tools and efficient processes. Photos provided by Modern Machine Shop. Testing a gage requires an operator to follow careful, standard procedures and use reference standards even more accurate than the gage in question. But what about manufacturing that gage?

1 month ago | mmsonline.com | Evan Doran

Mark: My father worked at another manufacturing company making gun drills. He must have done work on Saturday morning, so my brother and I had to go in and we were exposed to a larger shop. They were making gun drills, and we were mechanically minded, so we loved it. We loved going in there. This was in the 1970s, when we were elementary school-age kids, and then we had tools. And then when he bought his plastic machine shop in 1985, I was in high school.