Unplanned downtime is a dreaded phrase for any business. Modern manufacturers push their equipment to full capacity to ensure they get ahead and stay ahead. Breakdowns, equipment failures, electrical issues, and unplanned downtime cause costs to skyrocket and production to come to a screeching ha…
The Right Spiral Wrap Material for Your Application
Today’s business landscape is complex, highly technical and extremely advanced—in short, it’s more exciting than ever. This also means that most businesses, whether a large electronics manufacturer or a small home business, invest a great deal of time and money in technology. No matter what the s…
Spiral Cable Wrap for Computer Wires
Picture this: a crowded office or workspace, filled with computers, overwhelmed by cluttered computer wires and cables. Sound familiar? And the more computers you have, the more cluttered wires you have. This is not only dangerous—increasing the chances for trips and injuries—but also hazardous t…
2 Major Trends in Manufacturing
If it seems like there are new trends in manufacturing emerging daily, that’s because there are. Like trends in any industry, some will last and some will not, depending on their viability, their concrete potential, and their cost-effectiveness—among other factors. Some of the trends in manufactu…
4 Ways to Ensure Safety in the Shop
In a manufacturing facility or machine shop, one accident or injury is one too many. The most important goal of any facility owner is to keep workers safe. And a safe workplace means happier employees, a better reputation, less downtime, and higher productivity. There are many specific ways of en…
Automation and Manufacturing: A Partnership in Technology
Automation: It’s one of the biggest trends in manufacturing these days, and a perfect example of the ways the industry is making the most of cutting edge technology. From small businesses using it to enhance efficiency and boost profitability, to giants such as Boeing who are investing $1.2 billi…
Reshoring America’s Manufacturing Sector
Reshoring. It’s a term that has been thrown around a lot lately, but what does it mean for American manufacturers? During the Great Recession and over the past decade many companies outsourced operations overseas or shut their doors altogether, resulting in the loss of 2.3 million manufacturing j…
Our Cable Wrap is RoHS Compliant! (Wait…What is RoHS?)
You may have come across the term in some industrial settings, but what is RoHS and when does it apply? RoHS is the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive that became a law in the United Kingdom in January 2013. RoHS stands for “Res…
Will Boeing Bounce Back?
Boeing has not had an easy time of it lately, but that does not mean the aerospace giant isn’t making a comeback. Earlier this year, battery issues grounded an entire fleet of 787 Dreamliners when an All Nippon Airways flight out of Japan caught fire. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded …
Why Manufacturing Still Matters
A simple internet search for manufacturing can produce dizzying results full of articles arguing for and against an industrial renaissance in the United States. It can be difficult to determine what all of the indexes and data really mean when it comes to the health of American manufacturing busi…