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Machining Parts for the World’s Largest Digital Camera

SLAC is building the world’s largest digital camera, to be installed inside the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. Getting there requires the machining expertise of shops like Keller Technology.

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Looking Toward the Future

While reflecting on the past can be a helpful exercise in benchmarking progress, we must focus our attention on the technology, innovation and leadership that is changing the industry today and keeping machine shops modern.

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Advances in CAD/CAM Make 5-Axis Machining Easier to Implement

With advances in CAD/CAM technology, five-axis machining has grown easier to manage and markedly more productive. 

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How to Make More Money with Vertical Machining Centers

If you’re a job shop, you buy machines to make money, and chances are you’re using VMCs. The machine you buy, and how you deploy it, has everything to do with how profitable your shop will be.

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Being Part of Modern Machine Shop's Brand Evolution

The Modern Machine Shop brand has changed, expanded and improved in thoughtful ways during the near decade and a half that I’ve been part of the MMS team. Here are just a few examples.

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Machining Technology Spotted at Amerimold 2018

Amerimold presents a range of mold production equipment, strategies and best practices. Here is some of the mold machining technology displayed at this year’s event, ranging from automation to CAD/CAM.

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MMS Looks Back: 2010s - How Far Will Digital Advances Go?

Shops now linking their capabilities into unified systems are taking the first steps on a journey with no known destination. In media, too, we are asking our own version of this question. This story is part of our 90th anniversary series.

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MMS Looks Back: 2000s - Machine Shop Connectivity Increases

A machine shop’s experience installing Wi-Fi in 2005 is just one illustration of the rise of wireless technologies and the expectation of 24/7 connectivity. This story is part of our 90th anniversary series.

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MMS Looks Back: 1990s - High-Speed Strategies for a High-Speed World

Amid rapid advances in information technology, machines and tools designed for more powerful controls and more capable software enabled shops of the 1990s to mill faster than ever before. This story is part of our 90th anniversary series.

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Even My Accurate Predictions Are Wrong

The future does not come in a straight line. Multiple factors affect one another and the final outcome. My prediction that machine shops would see more composites is playing out, but I missed an important means by which this would happen.

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MMS Looks Back: 1980s - CAD/CAM Comes on Strong

As CNC machine tools displaced conventional, manually operated machines, computerized systems were taking over other manufacturing functions. This story is part of our 90th anniversary series.

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Economic Growth Indicated in the Lead-Up to IMTS 2018

Significant indicators point to major economic growth for the manufacturing industry leading up to IMTS 2018.

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