McGregor is an owner of his family's Morgal Machine Tool Company in Springfield, Ohio.
Metal-forming technologies, and the machine tool industry, continue to be the industrial backbone for any industrial economy.
Engineering companies like Siemens, transport firms like Deutsche Bahn, and machine tool firms could all be in Russia's sights.
The more sophisticated and accurate the machine tool, the more formidable is its ability to facilitate efficient weapons system production.
The dominant players in the machine tool industry have varied with the rise and fall of industrial manufacturing by country.
The remaining producers of machine tools have either shifted production to other machine tool lines, or have moved production offshore.
Mr. JAMIE MCGREGOR (Proprietor, Morgal Machine Tool Company): To stop shipments entirely.
Japanese machine tool orders (a leading indicator) surprised rising at a double-digit rate.
Only six of the 109 U.S. machine tool companies surveyed devote 25 percent or more of their current production capacity to these high-end machines.
This group was comprised of representatives of leading machine tool manufacturers and trade associations from five nations (the United States, West Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Italy).
Apart from what has occurred in the industry itself, the complete transformation of the global machine tool industry is a useful barometer for the entire manufacturing sector.
That was before the U.S. machine tool industry suffered a meltdown in 2009, when domestic consumption tumbled by 60.4 percent, according to the Association of Manufacturing Technology.
Engineering companies like Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ), transport firms like Deutsche Bahn, and machine tool firms could all be in Russia's sights.
The transition that has taken place in the global machine tool industry over the past seven years is representative of what is taking place in one industry after another.
He is, of course, extrapolating from the current condition of the 70 companies Berkshire Hathaway controls, including Burlington Northern, a slew of utilities and Iscar, the giant global machine tool company, headquartered in Israel.
Foreign entities with knowledge of the multi-axis simultaneous control machine tool industry view the U.S. export control policies and requirements as an additional burden to consider when dealing with U.S. multi-axis machine tool manufactures.
The disappearing jobs list also reflects the continuing long-term decline of no- and low-skilled manufacturing jobs in the U.S.--sewing machine operators, engine assemblers, machine tool setters, home appliance repairers and textile knitting machine operators.
In my view, the most serious threat to COCOM arises not from the greed of German machine tool manufacturers and their counterparts in other industries and other countries who are appear bent on making sales irrespective of the security consequences of doing so.
It led eventually to Fiat, where his first job was sorting out the sale of a machine-tool subsidiary in the early 1960s.
As the aerospace industry turns to new materials like titanium and car makers shrink engines to boost efficiency, they provide machine-tool makers with new markets.
As marketing manager of Makino, I drive our marketing programs to exhibit the same precision and high performance that our machine-tool centers deliver to our customers.
But then, in a Mitsubishi factory, he came across a British machine-tool salesman who told him that Japanese workers were getting three times as much out of their machines as their better paid British counterparts.
The old machine shops, tool and dye makers and myriad parts manufacturers were decimated as that work often went offshore to cheaper manufacturers.
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