An Arnold Publication- Serving the Western Metalworking Industry Since 1981
June • July 2010 • No. 6 • An Arnold Publication
• Going “Nuts” for Profit! (Online)
Like most small businesses, the life of Anaheim, CA’s 50-year-old Atlas Specialty Products, Inc. has been a wild roller coaster ride with lots of ups and downs, and at one point a total crash.
• Another Bite (Online)
We’re all familiar with dentists checking our jaw by pressing on the joint just ahead of our ears and saying: “Open. Close.” As we open and close our mouths, our jaw pivots at the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), allowing us to chew, talk and even hold a soda straw in our teeth.
• Building with Better Communication (Online)
A famous Irish literary critic and playwright once said, “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” Someone else once said, “What you think you said and what your customer thinks you said may be quite different.”
• The Last Breath (Online)
Necessity is definitely the mother of invention, proven once again by the invention of a small life-saving air tank called Spare Air by its machinist-inventor Larry Williamson.
“Larry is my father,” says Christeen Buban, VP at Huntington Beach, CA’s Submersible Systems, Inc., the company founded by Williamson to produce his invention. “He was a machinist by trade, as was his father before him. He had a small shop in Huntington Beach, where he produced parts for the aerospace industry, and, like many machinists, he was always tinkering with one invention or another.”
Like most small businesses, the life of Anaheim, CA’s 50-year-old Atlas Specialty Products, Inc. has been a wild roller coaster ride with lots of ups and downs, and at one point a total crash.
• Another Bite (Online)
We’re all familiar with dentists checking our jaw by pressing on the joint just ahead of our ears and saying: “Open. Close.” As we open and close our mouths, our jaw pivots at the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), allowing us to chew, talk and even hold a soda straw in our teeth.
• Building with Better Communication (Online)
A famous Irish literary critic and playwright once said, “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” Someone else once said, “What you think you said and what your customer thinks you said may be quite different.”
• The Last Breath (Online)
Necessity is definitely the mother of invention, proven once again by the invention of a small life-saving air tank called Spare Air by its machinist-inventor Larry Williamson.
“Larry is my father,” says Christeen Buban, VP at Huntington Beach, CA’s Submersible Systems, Inc., the company founded by Williamson to produce his invention. “He was a machinist by trade, as was his father before him. He had a small shop in Huntington Beach, where he produced parts for the aerospace industry, and, like many machinists, he was always tinkering with one invention or another.”
