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Thank-you to everyone who visited our booth at the NW Machine Tool Expo! We had a great turnout with many networking and connection opportunities. Thank-you Glen and Kyle for making this happen! And a special thanks to the OSU student chapter! Many thanks to Dolor (OSU SME Student Chapter Chair) for the photos!
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System design, execution, and sustainment are key to organizational excellence (or, doing everything right, the first time, on time, every time, all the time). The design, establishment, and sustainment of a quality management system is a key strategy. Basing such a system on ISO 9001 provides numerous additional benefits (ISO 9001:2015, .1). ...
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The Association of Career and Technical Education sponsored this video. It has great ideas for Middle and High school as well as Community College Trade Skill/ Manufacturing l programs. Peter provides information on his process and what worked and what didn't work. Harbor Freight provided a grant to his program. This grant is available to ...
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Edye S. Buchanan has an excellent article from October 2019 in the Manufacturing Engineering Magazine focusing on WIIFM. She has 32 year as a member in SME and has held a variety of volunteer positions. In her article she sites three main reasons people join. 1.Value Proposition- Publications, videos, webinars that provide ...
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