Articles
Workflow as a Competitive Advantage
As the cost of machine tools drops and the Baby Boomer generation enters retirement, the nature of competition between machine shops is trending toward data democratization and shop management software.
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Women Advocacy: Empowering Without Dividing
Promoting the manufacturing industry to all groups, especially young women, will help close the skilled labor gap.
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Your Competitors Can Do What You Do
With the barrier to entry for machine shops so low, competitive advantage is not necessarily tied to the ability to machine parts. Increasingly, it is a shop’s ability to document and streamline digital processes that sets it apart from competition.
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Improving the Parting Process: Faster Cuts, Smoother Finish
The MultiFGrip from Iscar has a robust design that enables it to make deep parting cuts in 4.72-inch barstock quickly while minimizing vibrations and material waste, providing time and material savings in high-production environments.
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Product Spotlight: Measurement and Inspection
This month’s Modern Equipment Review Spotlight focuses on technologies for part measurement, tool setting and machine inspection.
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Aerospace Machine Shop Opts for CAM Simulation Over Dry Runs
NCSIMUL Machine software has taken Marton Precision’s G-code program verification from a 16 hour manual process to a mere two hours.
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Brackets Are One Potential Win for 3D Printing
They may not be flashy, but they are necessary. Four reasons 3D printing can build a better bracket.
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3D Printing Plugs a Problem
Superior Metal Products had a problem with chips and coolant being shot back through tube material it was machining on a bar-fed CNC turning center. The solution to plug the back end of the tubes was a 3D printed device.
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AI Demands Meaningful Metrics
Machine learning can identify patterns and trends faster than any human, but correlations are only as meaningful as the data driving the analysis.
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What's the Best Insert for Finishing Steel?
Finish turning operations can cost more than you think in cycle time and tooling. Here’s some real test data on what insert works best, cermet vs. carbide and coated vs. uncoated.
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How to Effectively Train CNC Machine Operators
A blended-learning approach uses external resources to teach the basics, saving in-house training for company-specific issues.
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Material Jetting: It's Like Printing, Just in 3D
Recent advances in material processing capabilities have renewed interest in material jetting, the additive process that allows 3D objects to be built by placing different combinations of material drop-by-drop.
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