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If your business is looking for ways to save money while making essential improvements, consider purchasing used welding equipment. Not only is this equipment guaranteed to work just as efficiently as a brand new piece of equipment, but it will also be fully guaranteed is it breaks down and you need replacement parts. You can [...]

I was recently assigned the task to find a company that offered the lowest prices around on welding equipment and supply parts. My current employer was infuriated with the rising costs of equipment and replacement parts from our current supplier, so he wanted to locate a different company that could offer us the same products [...]

In today’s rough economy, many businesses are struggling to stay open and stay out of the red zone. When expensive equipment breaks down and needs to be replaced, this could cripple a smaller business and send them into bankruptcy. As the owner of a mid-sized medical device manufacturer, I relied upon my equipment heavily to [...]

Even though the past five years have given birth to the emergence of a slew of competing technologies – iPhone vs. Blackberry, E-reader vs. Kindle, Garmin vs. TomTom – many of these products share many components in common. While competition among component makers is fierce, the somewhat uniform demands of OEMs are  putting pressure on [...]

Nearly all of our customers involved in semiconductor manufacturing or research have been affected by the recent downturn in the economy. Good business management dictates that capital expenditures ought to be the first expense to cut in order to keep margins as wide as possible. Yet cutting capital expenditures for many customers means not investing [...]

For SEMs and semiconductor manufacturers alike, fixed costs represent a far greater portion of per-unit production cost than materials than it does in other businesses. Clean-room environments and gas delivery systems are expensive to build and maintain while substrate, tubes, and crystals are relatively inexpensive on a per-unit basis. Thus, margin expansion for users of [...]