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Turn/Mill

A Swiss-Type with a Laser

An integral laser cutter adds yet another capability to the multifunction Swiss-type lathe platform.

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MBI Grows for Seventh Month

With a reading of 51.9, the July metalworking index showed that the industry grew for the seventh consecutive month and the ninth time in 10 months. While this growth was at its slowest pace of 2014, the index was still 7.0 percent higher than it was one year earlier, the 11th straight month that the month-over-month rate has grown.

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Turn/Mill

Swiss-Type Lathe Features Integral Laser Cutter

An integral laser cutter brings another capability to this multifunction machine platform.

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Automation

How Much Can Unattended Production Add?

Using a horizontal machining center, this shop kept production going through two 10-hour shifts per day. That seemed like a lot, but a pallet system enabled the shop to go even further.

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Milling Tools

Online Marketplace for Surplus Tooling

Industrial Surplus Solutions has launched toolingmarketplace.com, an online resource to facilitate the buying and selling of surplus cutting tools.

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Automation

What’s Rotary Broaching, and How Did It Help a Robotics Team?

Rotary broaching enables CNC machines to create internal and external shapes such as squares, hexes and serrations. Slater Tool contributed its broaching technology to help a Los Angeles charter school program more effectively create components for a competition robot.

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Video: Automation Adds Jobs at Vickers Engineering

Rather than being a replacement for employees, this machined parts supplier says robotic automation has led to a doubling of the size of its staff.

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Still Thinking about a Summer Vacation?

Editor-in-chief Mark Albert would like to spend one in a machine shop, but a very different kind of machine shop. Read about it here.

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Automation

Reshoring, Robots and the New Factory Floor

Plastics processors are adopting robotics in a major way to compensate for a dwindling talent pool and reshored jobs.

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Automation

No Cage Required

The next frontier for robotic automation is near human workers.

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Automation

ComauFlex: Automation as Strategy

You can’t buy one. But you can buy into this approach to highly efficient automotive assembly automation.

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Roaring Out of the Recession

During the economic downturn, investments in technology and training, coupled with trimming waste in all areas of production, resulted in a stronger company with a healthier bottom line once the financial skies had cleared.

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