Month: April 2017

In today’s cost-competitive manufacturing environment, shaving minutes or even seconds from processes performed hundreds or thousands of times a day can make a real difference in shop floor productivity. Global Shop Solutions, a leading producer of manufacturing ERP software, helps their customers achieve this goal by using RFID (radio frequency identification) technology to simplify time and…

Courtesy of our partner the Precision Metalforming Association, we are proud to provide the following business conditions report for March 2017. According to the March 2017 Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) Business Conditions Report, metalforming companies are optimistic about business conditions during the next three months. Prepared monthly, the report is an economic indicator for manufacturing,…

In today’s fast-moving, just-in-time manufacturing markets, quick access to production data is critical to meeting customer demands. With Global Shop Solutions new manufacturing dashboards, manufacturers can now make smarter business decisions by visualizing their data anywhere on the shop floor and throughout the business. Global Shop Solutions has created more than a dozen dashboards that…

Jensen Metal Products, Inc. (JMP) is a one-stop job shop specializing in contract manufacturing of custom parts and components. Headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin, the company makes everything from complex bracketry and weldments to fabricated assemblies, gaskets, panels, shims, stainless steel glamor parts and more. Currently focusing on the agriculture, oil and gas and lighting industries,…

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them FEEL.” -Maya Angelou, poet For those that may not know, Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and…

Founded in 1986, Key Gas Components is a family-owned and operated manufacturing and engineering services company that produces a wide range of make-to-stock and custom parts designed to meet the needs of gas appliance OEMs. These parts include gas valves, manifolds, connectors, fittings, burners and lighters. Operating out of two separate facilities – a 35,000…