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Nearly Quarter Million Unfilled Manufacturing Jobs
The skills available among job seekers don’t match the skills that are truly in demand.
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The Brazil Experience
See what one editor encountered during his time at the FEIMAFE show in Sao Paulo and visits to area machine tool builders. And no, it didn’t involve soccer or Carnaval.
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Building Machine Tools in Paradise
Last week, Mori Seiki celebrated a ceremonial groundbreaking of the machine tool factory to be built in northern California, right next door to its Digital Technology Laboratory in Davis.
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This Extrusion is Fed Through the Machining Center
Long, slender parts can be difficult to machine, especially when they are longer than the machine itself. Watch video of a part being processed by being fed through the machining center.
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Strategies and Techniques for Big-Part Machining
Sometimes quick turnaround efforts for this large-part machining business start with what’s parked outside its facility.
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Reshoring: It’s Going to Happen Anyway
Yesterday at Gardner Publications’ head office in Cincinnati, Ohio, Harry Moser spoke for over an hour to an audience that included manufacturers, manufacturing buyers, and equipment suppliers. His topic was the reshoring of American manufacturing.
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Do Machining Facilities Make a Good Impression?
We heard back from one of our readers who agreed that people have the false impression that shops are dirty, dreary and loud places to work.
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Pull Boring Highlights the Capability of Deep Hole Making
Pull boring enables users to achieve remarkable straightness in deep holes. A variation of this technique is also effective when maintaining consistent wall thickness (in long, cast pipes, for example) is top priority.
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Industrial Production Grows for 17th Consecutive Month
Consumer durable goods industrial production in May was up 4.7 percent compared to May 2010.
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Lighted Workstop Verifies Part Location
Electrifying the work allows a light to indicate whether the setup is correct. The simple solution turned into a standard product for this shop.
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Morris on Morris
Brad Morris is assuming a leadership role at Morris Group, Inc., which got its start as The Robert E. Morris Company exactly 70 years ago. At last week’s event celebrating the anniversary, Brad spoke about the company and how he intends to continue building its future as one of the country’s leading machine-tool distributorships.
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Trolls Beware!
In most cases, the editors of our magazines spend their time writing about metalworking. However, thanks to Sandvik, some of our editors got a chance to wield a hammer and actually work metal.
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