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Coming Soon: The Edge Factor and Mountain Bike Machining
The Edge Factor is back. This time they are visiting a producer of high-performance mountain bike parts. Be sure to catch the trailer.
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Wanna Give MQL a Try?
If you own a Haas machine, here’s your chance to give minimum quantity lubrication a try.
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Shrink-Fit Heater with Built-in Cooling
Although shrink-fit toolholding is common in most shops, operator safety is a major concern. This technology enables the operator to handle the toolholder without using gloves.
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Top Shops 2011: High Tech Turning
Advanced Swiss-type-lathe technology enables this shop to create intricate components for complex medical, electronic and military applications.
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See How You Stack Up
“Top Shops” benchmarking data sheds light on what it takes to be one of the nation’s leading machining businesses.
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Top Shops 2011: K Tooling
K Tooling combines CNC machining with in-house fabricating, plating and painting capabilities to effectively take turnkey projects from CAD designs to final products.
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Machining with the Environment in Mind
It’s safe to assume that most shops recognize the importance of being environmentally responsible. However, benchmarking data suggests that the effort shops put into both recycling and reducing energy consumption varies.
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Top Shops 2011: C&R Manufacturing Inc.
C&R Manufacturing specializes in creating precision turned parts using CNC lathes with live tooling. Combined with the use of bar feeders, automatic gaging and robotic part handling, this enables the shop to generate intricate workpieces sans human intervention.
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Top Shops 2011: Bob’s Design Engineering Inc.
B.D.E’s CAD/CAM experience helps speed customers’ products to market.
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Top Shops 2011: McCay Tool & Engineering Co., Inc.
By adopting advanced CNC technologies and a lean, cellular approach to manufacturing and assembly, McCay Tool realizes very efficient flow of products through its operation.
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The First One
This editor’s first article for Modern Machine Shop about machine rebuilds still has legs.
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My Piece of Space Shuttle History
A sample of the silica insulation developed for the “tiles” that formed a critical part of the space shuttle’s Thermal Protection System came my way in the early 1980s. I’ve saved it all these years as a reminder of the technology (particularly five-axis machining) that made space shuttle flight possible.
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