Custom Carbon & Graphite Machining

27 Jan

Appropriate 2020 Year End

As we marched through the last couple weeks of 2020, a year of great professional and personal challenges, “resilience” was the word that most came to mind to describe Semco Carbon. All year long we have persevered in the face of adversity (as most of the country did). Our graphite fabrication business has remained strong and our customers well served and happy. None of this came easy. We may have been forgiven, then, for hoping for a smooth year end. It was not to be. 2020 decided to throw one last curve ball at us.Beginning With A Burst!At the beginning...

15 Jan

Year End Round-Up

We’ve turned the page on a very tough year. 2020 wasn’t kind in many ways to the world or our country. The coronavirus pandemic took its toll on graphite manufacturing as well. Graphite shops like ours made many hard adjustments to ensure we could keep up with our customers’ orders for carbon graphite components. Looking back on 2020, there is actually a lot to be proud of at Semco. We want to use this blog to review the year and the many accomplishments of our company and its employees. Most of all, we want to celebrate the ingenuity, dedication, and...

04 Jan

Happy New Year from Semco Carbon

We deeply value each and every one of the customers and employees who make Semco’s work possible, and we have found this to be especially true in the midst of a year as challenging as 2020. Despite the year’s setbacks - which have affected the entire nation and world - our customers and employees have been flexible, gracious, and a pleasure to work with. This year, to reflect our appreciation for our team, we amended our year-end schedule by closing our doors on December 24th and adding one additional paid holiday to the Semco calendar. We hope that this well-deserved...

24 Nov

Update on The Romer Arm: It's Here

A few months ago in this blog, we detailed an Ohio safety grant that Semco applied for. The grant, supporting businesses’ endeavors to improve workplace safety, would help Semco purchase a portable measuring arm. This state-of-the-art device would be used to perform difficult measurements of graphite components inside of large machines we use at Semco for graphite fabrication. Often, the component being manufactured must be measured while within the machine. In these cases, a quality inspector would have to go into the machine, compromising the quality of measurements (the machines are tight spaces for the inspectors and thus impeded accurate...

17 Nov

Overall Labor Effectiveness (OLE) is Working

In last month’s blog, we discussed the OLE (Overall Labor Effectiveness) tracking program we began implementing recently at Semco. Efficiency in graphite manufacturing, as in any manufacturing business, is crucial to our bottom line and to our ability to serve our customers well. By eliminating waste when we machine our clients’ custom graphite components, we save them money on materials costs and get these components to our customers more quickly. The program also helps our managers determine where more training is required on the shop floor and what parts of the manufacturing process are producing unnecessary scrap. OLE is the...