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Economics

GBI: Metalworking for December 2015 – 44.0

Industry closes out the year at its highest level since July, a further indication that it may have reached a bottom.

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Automation

January 2016 Product Spotlight Slideshow: Robots & Automation

This month’s Modern Equipment Review Spotlight focuses on robots and other automated machining and work handling equipment.

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Marking System Controller Expands List of Compatible Equipment

Automator America has released the AC500 3.0 universal controller for its line of pneumatic, electric and scribe marking systems.

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Cutting Tools

Choosing the Best Threading Method

What’s the difference between rolling and cutting threads? This tip sheet provides useful insights into which method will best produce a threaded part that will meet your requirements.

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Cutting Tools

Video: The Advantages of Serrated Button Inserts

Although round cutting inserts have a well-deserved reputation for efficiently roughing contoured geometry, they sometimes work best when they’re not perfectly round.

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10 Ideas for Machine Shops in 2016

What is the next important step for your shop? Drawn from the entire past year of Modern Machine Shop, here are 10 possibilities to consider.

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A New Generation of Sensors Is Here

. . . and it is ushering in the next industrial revolution. In the interconnected world of the Industrial Internet Things, some of the most important data about connected machines and equipment will come from sensors the likes of which we have not seen before. Here are some representative examples.

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Fast Machine Leveling and Alignment

This product got me thinking about other routine processes and procedures that go unchallenged.

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Video: A Matchmaker for Manufacturing

A Kentucky company bases its business model on connecting OEMs with job shops that have unfilled machining capacity, supporting these building blocks of local and state economies.

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Turn/Mill

3 Design Elements for Effective Turning on a 5 Axis Machine

Here are three design elements that enable this five-axis machine to effectively turn workpieces, even if they aren’t symmetric.

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Top Shops

Leveraging LinkedIn?

Leading shops use LinkedIn more these days. Consider joining our growing LinkedIn community to pose questions and share your thoughts with other Top Shops in North America.

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Turn/Mill

A Swiss-Type Turning Point

The lessons this shop learned after purchasing its first Swiss-type turning center nearly two decades ago are now being applied to larger multi-spindle and multi-turret lathes for bigger and more complex parts.

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