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Drawing Millennials to Manufacturing
The best endorsement for choosing advanced manufacturing as a career path may well come from those who have already entered the field and are now reaping the rewards.
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Getting Ramped up on Swiss-Types
Swiss-type lathes present unique challenges to operators who aren’t familiar with them. Here are a few.
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Best Practices of Top U.S. Shops
Results from our fifth annual Top Shops benchmarking survey reveal operational metrics, strategies and tools common to leading machine shops here in the States.
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The Lowdown on Machine Tool Lubricants
Need help choosing the right lubricant for your machine tools and workplace environment? Here’s a resource to help keep your equipment humming along.
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Video: Free Kit for Hosting a Manufacturing Day Event
The Edge Factor has produced a turnkey package with media and interactive resources to help companies create an exciting event showcasing manufacturing.
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Video: Machining API Groove with “Spirograph” Tool Path
A system for turning oil-industry face grooves on a machining center uses an adjustable toolholder along with an NC code generator for creating the unusual path.
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Easing the Entry into Additive Manufacturing
With funding from America Makes, Optomec and MachMotion worked together to develop a retrofit additive manufacturing system for machining centers.
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Adaptive Machining Makes a Robot More Productive
This system for machining and polishing turbine blades shows the value of software for inspection, toolpath calculations and adaptive machining working together.
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One-Offs Without Tradeoffs
Does it have to be expensive to produce a one-off part? Does the one-off have to fall short of the manufactured part’s properties? A Boston-area 3D printer maker has an idea for how to produce components that are both low quantity and industrial quality.
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Broader Range of Applications Ahead for Ceramic Inserts?
Greenleaf's phase-toughened ceramic inserts could prove that this kind of technology has a future in more universal milling and turning applications.
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The Art and Science of Hand-Scraping Ways on CNC Machine Tools
Hand-scraping the mating surfaces of a CNC machine tool’s motion system offers myriad advantages.
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Surprises Uncovered at a Groundbreaking
Companies customarily mark new construction with a groundbreaking ceremony. Such an event to celebrate Hydrotech Inc.’s expansion of its suburban Cincinnati headquarters, however, revealed some unexpected facets to this diverse fluid power and automation solutions provider.
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