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Die/Mold

How Cameras Improve Capacity

Web cameras provide an inexpensive way to bring remote processes together, and to improve timing and confidence in unattended machining.

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One EDM Shop, Two Different Stories

This versatile shop uses wire EDM both to machine big mold components and “turn” small parts.

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Workholding

Incremental Automation

This machine tool supplier sees shops searching for just a little bit of unattended capacity. Many shops are closer to obtaining this extra capacity than they realize.

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Rosie the Riveter Was a Cellist

A beautiful story came to an end late last year, when Geraldine Doyle passed away at age 86.

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How I “Benefitted” from Moldmaking Technology Magazine

Old Moldmaking Technology trade show panelsserved as a good foundation for my headliner, but moldmakers will find more value in MMT.

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Finding the Next Better Cutting Tool

Substrates, coatings, geometries and other aspects of cutting tools keep on getting better.

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Hey, That’s Not Scrap. It’s Art!

*Art Not Art According to a recent news release from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) the theft of valuable bronze sculptures from an art museum was solved by a posting on the scrap industries’ online theft alert system.

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EDM

Wire Rethreader Hits The Mark

The rethreading system on a wire electrical discharge machine helps a U.S. manufacturer keep up with production requirements for a critical pistol component.

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The Snowed-in Machinist

Much of the country is dealing with snow, blizzards and plummeting temperatures today.

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Oil & Gas

A Role to Remember

The performance of this company’s machine tools for turning and milling large workpieces is critical to applications such as environmental cleanups. Its part in the recent Gulf oil spill was a dramatic example.

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January MBI at 60.2 – Faster Growth Continues

With a reading of 60.2, the MBI showed that the metalworking industry continued its trend of steadily accelerating growth since February 2010.

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Top Shops

Does It Have to Cost Green to Be Green?

We wanted to ask about environmental or “green” initiatives in our “Top Shops” Industry Survey, but in discussing the matter among the MMS staff, we realized that it’s hard to pin down what “green” really means.

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