We manufacture industrial graphics for the off-highway,
construction, transportation and farm equipment markets.
Resources: Articles
Articles
Aesthetics, Durability & Brand Longevity: The Powers of Lamination
By Tobbias Day, Director of Quality Management. Want to enhance the visual appearance and the durability of your industrial graphics? Chances are, you don't need to look any further than lamination. Manufacturers generally choose to laminate their decals for two key reasons: visual enhancement and durability. First, overlaminates add depth to your graphics and provide a consistent finish. Second, overlaminates add unmatched durability to your graphics.
How to Differentiate Safety Signal Words
By April Silver as published in OEM Off-Highway Magazine. Caution. Warning! DANGER! Three words mean pretty much the same thing, right? Wrong. They’re not interchangeable, particularly when it comes to industrial graphics. In fact, each of these “signal words” has a specific connotation that literally can mean the difference between life and death.
Are Your Engineering Drawings Costing You Money and Performance?
By Tobbias Day as published in OEM Off-Highway Magazine. The more precise the engineering drawings are for your decals, the more likely you will get the performance you want. However, the tighter these specs – and the more brand names they include – the more likelihood you are limiting your decal vendor from providing a cost-saving opportunity that might also improve performance. These “lock out” specs might also be requiring an over-engineered decal, forcing the vendor to use a more expensive and unnecessarily over-performing substrate.
Kitting Means Having The Right Decal, In The Right Place, At The Right Time
By MUIR as published in the Ag Innovator, a Publication of the Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association. Ensuring you have the right decals at the right place at the right time can be a major juggling act for the agriculture industry. Missing decals can hold up the production line, so you want to make sure you always have enough on hand. But stocking too many decals can add unnecessary costs and lead to confusion, waste, hoarding and spoilage. Adding to the challenge, many pieces of farm equipment require that a specific collection of decals be applied before shipping, as do certain customers and shipping locations. Changes to bills of material only increase the complexity. What’s the solution?
The Evolution of Industrial Graphics: An Insider's View
By Andrew Muir as published in Design 2 Part Magazine. As a second generation industrial graphics manufacturer, Andrew Muir has a unique perspective on how the industry has changed and developed throughout the years. And his insights aren’t limited to just the technologies used but also in the way businesses in the industry are run, the increased emphasis on production processes, environmental safety and craftsmanship.
Why Quality Beats Price - Hands Down
By Mark Shortt of Design 2 Part Magazine. In a competitive manufacturing environment, there’s a lot to consider when evaluating potential sources and deciding who’s going to be your next supplier for a particular project. Chances are that your decision will have a lot to do with how you feel about two important factors—the quality of the supplier’s manufacturing and the estimated price of their work. Which is more important to your decision—quality or price? That depends on what your long term goals are.
Muir Goes for the Green and Exceeds Expectations
By Diane DiPiero as published in the Captial of Know-How Magazine, a Publication of The Manufacturing Mart. A casual talk about environmental awareness spurred a quest for ISO 14001:2004 certification, a standard for environmental management systems designed to help organizations minimize how their operations negatively affect the environment by the International Organization for Standardization.
Selling the Fine Print
By Steve Tarter of the Journal Star. Muir's Business Blueprint, featured in the Journal Star, describes how Muir Omni Graphics emphasizes green philosophy and community ties while making labels, signs for businesses.
"I Make America" National Grassroots Campaign Launch
AEM launches the "I Make America" Campaign in DC on September 29th to show how vital equipment manufacturing is to the U.S. economy and our global competitiveness, and express widespread support for policies that create and protect U.S. manufacturing jobs. Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs to be keynote speaker joined by AEM president Dennis Slater and CEOs from major OEMs. Watch the video
