November 2007 Edition
Inside This Newsletter
 1) Measuring Big: Lessons From the Oil Industry
 2) Competing Ideas: Do Something Somewhere
 3) CNC Tech Talk: Separating The Use Of Geometry And Wear Offsets
 4) Gratefulness: Find
 
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"In the world of oil drilling, there are some pretty big things. It's not just the rigs anchored out in the ocean that are huge: Everything that goes along with them seems to get supersized, including the need for gaging..."

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Quality Gaging Tips: Lessons From the Oil Industry


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Those of us advocating the need for continually improving operations believe it is better to do something “pretty well” than to do nothing “perfectly.” What I mean by this is that we often struggle trying to find the best place to begin an improvement effort, yet if we would just start somewhere, we could see results sooner. We might even find that these results are just as impressive as those we might have achieved if we could ever find that “best” place to start..."

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Competing Ideas: Do Something Somewhere

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Character Quote of the Month


"Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it."


-  Irving


"Many current-model turning centers have two sets of offsets: Geometry offsets are used to assign program zero during setup, and wear offsets are used to make sizing adjustments during the production run. When users view these offsets on the display screen, they look very similar. Each will have the same number of offsets (32, 99, etc.) and four registers (X, Z, R and T)..."

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CNC Tech Talk: Separating The Use Of Geometry And Wear Offsets



Why have articles on character?

"The day Andrew Carnegie retired, he gave away $11.2 million.  The first $5 million went for libraries and for disability and pension funds for Carnegie Steel Company employees. 'I make this first use of surplus wealth upon retiring from business,” he wrote in the letter dispersing the funds, “as an acknowledgement of the deep debt I owe to the workmen who have contributed so greatly to my success.'..." 

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Gratefulness: Find

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