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Archives for Manufacturing
NFPA 86 – Combustion Safety Audits
While safety is everybody’s business, the focus on safety and disaster prevention sometimes gets put on the back burner. Work priorities, busy production schedules and a overworked maintenance staff can de-prioritize your safety program. NFPA codes and standards exist to help companies prevent accidents and disasters and to protect your employees. At ETTER, we use…
ETTER – An American Growth Story – Part #5
In Parts 1-4, we talked about Goal Setting, Building a Plan, Setting your KPI’s and Creating Culture and Building your Team. The fifth part of building a great business is building a system of accountability to ensure that you stay on track and keep focused on the plan. Building an accountability system is key to your…
ETTER Then and Now…..
Each quarter we hold a company meeting to review our progress for the previous quarter and talk about our plans for the upcoming quarter. We also review the ETTER Way – our points of culture that we want our team to model. One of our points of culture is Drive and Embrace Change. In thinking about…
Custom Heater Box leaves the building…..
One of the strengths of ETTER Engineering is our custom manufacturing capabilities. We build custom control panels, furnaces and heater boxes. Here is one of our latest creations leaving our building. This is a custom heater box that is used to provide heat for the oven of one of our customers. Our ETTER Solutions group is…
A Visit by Heather Somers
The Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Heather Somers, paid a visit to ETTER Engineering today. Along with the Mayor of the city of Bristol, Ken Cockayne, Jim Albert, CEO of the Central Connecticut Chamber and Justin Malley, Director of the Bristol Development Authority, Somers spent some time on the production floor learning about the world…
Work on the Furnace Continues
As we revisit our Aluminum Forge Furnace under construction in the shop, we see controls have been mounted, along with fuel trains and the stainless steel conveyor belt. It’s been fascinating to watch this beast come together, and I can’t wait to see the finished product! Contact Us
The Furnace Gets Painted!
Those that follow the ETTER Blog will remember the Aluminum Forge Furnaces we’ve been building in our shop. A major step in the process is now complete – both furnaces have been painted, and are ready for the combustion components to be fit! More to come as the build progresses… Contact Us
Nearly Every Manufacturer in the U.S. Will Benefit From Low-Cost Natural Gas
A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group finds that cheap domestic energy is increasing the U.S. cost advantage in a wide range of industries, improving U.S. competitiveness. The cost advantage has already started to boost investment and employment and will persist for at least five years. The energy cost advantage is amplified by the…
Connecticut Manufacturing Shows Dynamic Growth and Destruction
A recent piece from WNPR.org highlights the creative destruction of the manufacturing industry within Connecticut. As the article by Harriet Jones notes, manufacturing has had it tough in the last three years. Since 2010, the sector has seen a net decline in employment of about 4,000 jobs in Connecticut. But that number masks the fact that…