Production Machining - Your access to the precision machining industrial buyer.
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SeSSIon DeSCrIP TIonS TUESDAY, APRIL 16 8:15 – 9:15 a.m. IT Disaster Recovery Solutions What do you do in your shop to mitigate the loss of the critical data in your business? The sustainability of your company may one day rely on the ability of your team to keep your business data flowing. PMPA's IT Committee has prepared this session to provide real world examples from multiple shops focusing on traditional, virtual machine, and cloud recovery plans. Take home the ideas shared by leading shops to get a better understanding of the options available to you, including mass storage devices, virtual machines, and cloud. 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Common Pitfalls in Interpreting Quality Indexes "My parts are all in spec, but my Cpk is below required! How can this be?" Taking Cpk and Ppk at face value may not provide an accurate assessment of your shop's true capability. From sample size to tool wear, from multiple stations (or spindles) to taper, there are many factors that can make your indexes appear worse or better than actual. Alex Zaks of Altegra SPC Software will take a look at the common pitfalls in interpreting and computing quality indexes. At the end of this session, you will understand how you can better defend your quality indexes and what you can do to improve them. PMPA Tech Conference Summary – Content Wrap-up So many sessions, so little time... With so much valuable content packed into this conference, it is impossible to attend all the sessions you wanted. This interactive session will provide you with the opportunity to get the key takeaways from each of the conference sessions. PMPA's Technical Program Committee members will staff this session and provide a virtual tour of the conference highlights, key slides, and interact with attendees to share the takeaways they got from the event. Maximize your attendance by bringing back many actionable ideas from this conference. Material Effects on Machining How our workpiece material is provided can influence our machining processes. Kevin Armanie of Kaiser Aluminum, Bob Drab of Corey Steel Company, and Miles Free of PMPA will provide a quick summary of their certification workshop and share the material factors that influence machining productivity and profits. Machining Technologies Showcase – Part 2 Part 2 of the Machining Technologies Showcase will highlight seven additional builders with their version of the latest and greatest technologies. Machining Technologies Showcase – Part 1 What are today's leading technologies? PMPA's machine tool builders will present a wide range of machining technologies in this YouTube-type presentation of your machining future. Come and enjoy this first sneak peek at what you can expect to see on the show floor. For a closer look at the technical programs being offered at PMPA's 2013 National Technical Conference immediately preceding PMTS, go to pmpa.org, and click on 2013 National PHOTO SOURCE: Spraying Systems Co. Technical Conference. productionmachining.com :: 57