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Speaking of Precision is a knowledge preservation and thought leadership blog covering the precision machining industry, its materials and services. With over 36 years of hands on experience in steelmaking, manufacturing, quality, and management, Miles Free (Milo) Director of Industry Research and Technology at PMPA helps answer "How?" "With what?" and occasionally "Really?"

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What You Preferred in 2013

Posted January 07, 2014 12:00 AM by Milo

Here are the top posts from 2013 that YOU found most interesting.

Skills DO Pay the Bills

You need skills, not just high pay, to properly hitch the cart to the horse.

We paid attention!

With over 20,000 views, we adjusted to your interest by creating a new blog focused solely on careers:

http://yourcareerfacts.com/

Second most popular was Multiple Solutions about the lesson I learned at Paul Horn Company about optimizing for product output and quality rather than lowest cost- over 14,000 views:

Yep Two solutions! Which one is right?

Accuracy and Precision in your Machining Shop

Accuracy describes 'close to true value;' Precision describes 'repeatability.'

Our post explaining accuracy and precision has had over 10,000 views.

We had two posts in our top ten addressing Safety and Lift Trucks:

OSHA Emphasis Lift Trucks

Inspection Compliance ForkLifts

And the balance at 5000 views or less each addressed Metallurgy and it's impact on our processes and products:

Hardness vs Hardenability

5 Benefits of Cold Work

Blue Brittleness

5 Reasons to Anneal Steel

Seams on Steel Products

We started this blog to provide knowledge retention of important concepts that impact our precision machining businesses.

But you keep this blog going with your interest, forwards to colleagues, and comments on group discussion on LinkedIn where we share.

What will be 2014′s most important posts? We suspect regulatory topics to garner a lot of attention, but there is always the economy…

What would you like us to blog about in 2014?

Editor's Note: CR4 would like to thank Milo for sharing this blog entry, which originally appeared here.

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Re: What You Preferred in 2013

01/09/2014 1:12 PM

Back in 2011 I had the #3 post as shown in this list http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/18716/Most-Popular-CR4-Threads-of-2011. It's amazing that that many people were interested in finding a cheap way to do stucco on a concrete block house.

I wonder if the wording "hide joints in a concrete block wall" had anything to do with all the search engine hits? Perhaps some people were thinking about something other than what I was asking about.

By the way, the cheap stucco job was a lot of work but it turned out great. We used the expensive flexible thinset and spread it on with 100% coverage. There was no way to match up just the joint so we first filled the joints and then covered 100% with a later coat. After about 3 years we have not seen a single crack or failure.

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Re: What You Preferred in 2013

01/11/2014 12:29 AM

Bruce, I don't get it>> LOL

I would have thought the popular discussion for 2013 would be ...

Apple's manufactured in China
Hostess goes under
Explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant
3D Printers
USA manufacturing reshoring
U.S. Becomes World's Top Oil Producer (most under-reported news for 2013 too)
GM (auto industry) comeback

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