USWP MFG

01/07/2023

01/07/2023

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We are excited to announce the newest division of USWP MFG.

Online store will be live sometime in February.

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08/02/2022

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USWP and its companies Quality Coatings and Magnerite have created an ethos of getting the job done, we are never afraid to learn new processes and are always improving our processes for perfect parts and on time delivery through our Quality management System

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01/14/2022

We are hiring! We are looking to expand our team in a few areas. We offer full time employment, 401k, paid holidays, vacation, dental and medical benefits. If you are interested into joining our team please contact [email protected] for more details.

05/15/2014

Say something nice to a different co-worker every day. Compliment them on something they do well. Even if it is only something little, like coming to work every day.

As small as that seems, being a reliable worker is important. Being at work every day is important.

We have employees who come to work when they are ill, hurt, tired, etc.. Every day. Rain or shine, we can count on them being here to get the job done.

05/14/2014

I took these photos on a perfect winter day, this year. One will be the cover art for a book. Plenty of room for the title art up on top, in the fog. :-)

Which one do you like best? I think I like the first one. Being able to just make something out in the fog, sort of seems to draw the viewer in and want to look closer at the picture.

Besides, the second one sort of looks like frosted spiders :-(

The Northwest has such incredible views and amazing things to see and do. Sometimes I feel bad that I am not doing ALL of them. Like I am wasting the opportunities afforded to me, just by being in this region. :-)

05/13/2014

It is not even 9AM and USWP already has eight pick ups and deliveries scheduled. It is going to be a good day :-)

05/11/2014

Happy Mother's Day.

And a DOUBLE HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all the single parents out there pulling double duty.

A tip of the hat to you!

05/07/2014

The sound of the shop changes as the economy fluctuates.

If you are in your own workshop and the employees are busy and the machines are running; you can almost tell what jobs they are working on.

When the CNC machines are milling on dies or heavy plate, the sound of the machine is different. A higher pitch. Almost as though the miniscule vibrations of the machine have something to really reflect off of and take every opportunity to do so.

I can hear the cranes running in the anodizing area. The CNC machines make their own distinctive sounds as they change bits and mill the aluminum. The sound of the rubber mallets as the workers seat parts into the fixtures and jigs. The whishing sound of guys hand sanding parts to smooth the finish combined with others deburring rough edges.

I don't miss the sound of that plastic sonic welder though. But along with that machine was the machine that made those little air pillows used for packaging. Very distinctive rustling sound.

It's a good day when I can hear them all running. :-)

04/30/2014

Aside from being too trusting, i am not sure you can go wrong with kindness.

If you can manage to be nice to people (especially if you don't think they deserve it), you probably can make the world a slightly better place.

I'm not saying today is "Take a Homeless Person Home With You" day, because that seems like a good way to fall into the "too trusting" category.

But it won't kill you to hand them a bottle of water, if you happen to have one. It won't make you a wonderful human being either. It will only make you kind. Kind, only for that moment.

You don't get to go back to the office and be a jerk to your co-workers just because you handed a hobo your unused water bottle.

Even if you do it just so you can brag to everyone how wonderful you are, it was *still* a good deed. Aristotle decided that your motivation for doing a good deed does not decrease the value of the good deed. I, however, feel that for it to be truly altruistic, you really need to do it as anonymously as possible :-)

You'll probably realize when you get to the point where you don't even notice that you did not want to tell anyone about what you just did.

Be kind. Encourage others to be kind. I don't see how it could hurt.

04/21/2014

"If I could give just one characteristic to my children, it would be persistence."
-Thomas Jefferson

Now I am pretty sure he did not mean to keep doing stupid things or trying the same, failed idea over and over, but instead, to not give up just because you failed.

At one point, NASA (before it was NASA) was 'called to the carpet', before congress to explain the comment made by the director that "We have made over 20,000 mistakes."

The politicians angrily and condescendingly wanted to know why they were making so many mistakes.

The answer was that the Soviets were ahead of us. They had made about 60,000 mistakes and like us, had solved each one and had moved on.

We needed to make and solve about 120,000 more mistakes before we would be ready for the moon.

See how far ahead the Russians were?

The Russians were persistent and focused on the goal. We were being hamstrung by people telling us it was not okay to make mistakes.

Eventually the politicians understood the dire need for MORE MISTAKES and funded the moon programs enough to make a landing possible.

Don't be afraid of making mistakes :-) It is okay to step away from your bicycle and say "Okay. I did that totally wrong." But you will NEVER learn that trick or that technique if you don't look down at your scuffed knee, rub some dirt on it and get back on your bike for a second try.

It is okay to tell yourself "Toughen up buttercup.", straighten out your handlebars, wrench the seat straight (-ish) and go again.

You will never be amazing, or even competent, if you don't get back on that bike and fail and fail again. Eventually you will have made every mistake you needed to make in order to succeed.

It's probably the same with life...

04/13/2014

The oyster does not learn to make pearls by attending pearl-building seminars with other oysters.

The oyster does not even make the pearl. The grit, pain, suffering and irritation causes the pearl to form and the oyster does everything it can to get rid of it.

If the oyster knew what it was making; would it hold onto the grit for longer?

We all have things in our lives which annoy us. Those pieces of grit that are our own irritations.

If you have something, (or even someone) who irritates you; what can that thing do to help you create a pearl?

If work stresses you out and you are still irritated at bedtime, take a drawing class. Learn to paint. Play the guitar or sing. Before you say "But I don't know how to do any of those things!" Imagine that might be what the lessons are for :-) You already have the thing to motivate you, you just need somewhere to put all that energy.

Yes... art, music and writing will take months to learn. Years to master. But in a week, you can start taking that irritation and turning it into your pearl.

At first your pearl will be lumpy and ugly, but soon your irritant will have all of its previously sharp, unignorable edges, smoothed down.

After you add more layers of protection via your musical instrument or your art, you may begin to see that the thing that used to bring you to tears, now has begun to fulfill dreams you never knew you had.

Once you see your sketches, paintings or hear your music, the hardest part awaits. But in this case it is okay to never go beyond treating yourself with your art. You never have to show anyone. Your pearl. It is yours. Both from you and for you.

You might even learn to cherish some of those bad times because without them you would never have rolled out your pearls.

Now you wonder 'Would I have ever become who I am without all that irritation to spur me on? Would I have been better off without all my grit, irritation, struggle and difficulties?'

I think... no.

Would you want to have spent your life coddled, swaddled and pampered? You would certainly have grown up to be a little, one-dimensional sliver of who you are. A manicured princess or a foppish prince with less depth than our oyster.

Would you enjoy or eagerly anticipate spending an evening with someone who had never struggled or suffered or gone without? How interesting is that person? What stories do they have to tell? What lessons have they learned?

If you are miserable and suffering; join the club. Everyone interesting IS! But to become interesting you need to turn that suffering into motivation to make a difference. Them *make* that difference count for something.

Don't let your suffering drag you down. That is what happens to one dimensional, uninteresting people. No. That path is not for you. You can do better.

Be the oyster. Not the princess.

At least oysters make pearls.