At last week’s Buffalo Business First Manufacturing Awards there was quite a turnout. Hundreds of people came to recognize Western New York’s top manufacturing companies. The event, which is presented by Business First and Sponsored by Buffalo Manufacturing Works, Insyte Consulting, Sonwil Distribution, and Key Bank, give us in the industry an opportunity to recognize what Read more…
Today is National Manufacturing Day. It is a day to celebrate manufacturing in America. Very often manufacturing gets a bad reputation. For a long time, it was true that manufacturing plants were dirty and unsafe. Manufacturing jobs were often strenuous and tedious, and the threat of working in a factory was good motivation Read more…
I love technology. I love manufacturing. For 2 decades I’ve been intrigued by Additive Manufacturing. I saw my first Stereolithography (SLA) machine in the 90’s, but no one called it Additive Manufacturing back then. UV light passed over a resin bath and solidified it into a part. The process was slow and the part was Read more…
Tony, circa 1992. Back in 1992 Tony Staub broke the Golden Rule of Machining: he walked away from an operating machine. He nervously waited in the break room for 10 minutes. When he came back, his machine was still working fine. As time went on, he left the machine operating alone for more and Read more…
