Management

State sales tax bases are both too narrow and too broad.

Avantech recently added two new, large bridge-style CNC machines, significantly enhancing its capability to provide large-scale tooling for customers.

U.S. factory output rose in April, although new estimates of manufacturing and overall industrial production showed less growth in prior months than initially believed, casting a shadow over the economic outlook.

Sidney Pimenta Paiva, 60, took over management of the U.S. subsidiary Mapal Inc. effective April 1.

Knuth Machine Tools USA Inc. is celebrating its 15th anniversary.

Photonics company Jenoptik Optical Systems LLC, Jupiter, Fla., appointed three international executives to its executive management board.

PMT Group Inc., Bridgeport, Conn., parent company of Moore Tool Co. Inc., Moore Nanotechnology Systems LLC and Producto Corp., appointed Mark Boomgarden president and CEO of Moore Tool and Moore Nanotechnology Systems.

Bob Hudson of New South Whales, Australia, responded to my April 11 blog titled "Assisting manufacturers with augmented reality."

"One of the more common problems I have seen in my years in the machine shop is a general lack of readily available and handy information on machine shop math, specifically on feeds, speeds and related formulae," writes Kevin Mulhern. "Whether you are programming a 5-axis CNC machine or turning handles on a 60-year-old knee mill, the numbers don’t lie. However, one very important lesson I have learned is to respect the variables."