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The Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) is a coalition of different organizations from all sectors within manufacturing that has developed a common set of skill standards, assessments and certifications for manufacturing.

Philips North American Center for Industrial Technology (Sunnyvale, CA) feels that good products should be available to everyone.

There is an old saying that no aircraft is ready to fly until the paperwork equals the takeoff weight.

Reasons that sound good aren’t always good, sound reasons.

Ithaca Peripherals (Ithaca, NY) was founded in 1983 to develop, design and market stand-alone point-of-sale (POS) printers.

"Our customers want hydraulic presses in their assembly systems, until we demonstrate how a CNC electromechanical press can improve both the quality of their parts and the productivity of their processes," says John Burtka, president of Owen Machine and Tool Inc. (Jackson, MI).

When the best adhesive for a bonding application is a two-part formula that must be mixed before application, engineers sometimes avoid using it because they can’t be certain it will be mixed correctly. 3M Automotive has commercialized a new technology—called adhesive taggants—that can improve control over the mixing of two-part adhesives.

The potential for voltage drop is a typical, but undesired, outcome for most power supply terminations in low-voltage systems.

The Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) is a coalition of different organizations from all sectors within manufacturing that has developed a common set of skill standards, assessments and certifications for manufacturing.

The U.S. economy was already faltering, arguably headed into a recession, before the despicable and cowardly acts of murder perpetrated upon the United States on Sept. 11.