Author: Rich Frain

Robots and Automation

It seems like I can’t turn around these days without seeing another article about robots. Especially about how robots will

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Donuts to Dollars

Quick, what business are you in? It sounds silly but a lot of companies don’t know.
McDonald’s is the classic

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Automate for Quality

People wreck your quality.
Not on purpose. Most people try very hard not to wreck quality and generally do pretty

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Take the Plunge

When you were a kid there was probably some swimming hole with a cliff that all the kool kidz jumped

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Not Now

“Hey Boss, we’re maxed out in packaging. We need to start adding more capacity.”
“Not now. Let’s talk about it

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Vision, People, Risk

Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple and was the visionary behind the Mac, I-Phone, I-Pad and other products. Jobs didn’t bring much

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Goldie Oldies

Old doesn’t mean obsolete. Not in packaging machinery. We routinely rebuild machines from the 80’s, 70’s and earlier.
Manufacturing used

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The good, the bad and the ugly

Here at Frain we see it all: the good, the bad and the ugly. Some of the pre-owned machinery we

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Who’s Making It in the US?

Lots of talk this election year about how our manufacturing jobs are leaving the country. China and Mexico are supposed

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Making music, Banging heads

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chicago Bears have two things in common:
First they both pretty much have

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Rapid Prototyping: Another way

3D printing is amazing. It allows a dreamer to imagine something and have it in physical form hours later. In

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Manufacturing and Employment

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about the decline of manufacturing and manufacturing jobs in the

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