Articles

14 May 2010

Experiencing, Crafting, Delivering

All three of these story-development steps are important, but the first one is the most significant (and it’s the one I appreciate the most).

Workforce Development 13 May 2010

Telling the Mainstream about Manufacturing

How do we reach the next generation of manufacturing employees? One machine tool company succeeds with local efforts. Meanwhile, “C.H.A.M.P.I.O.N.–Now!” seeks to go national.

13 May 2010

March Machine Tool Sales Up 35%

According to the USMTC, March 2010 machine tool sales were up 35% and 57% compared to March 2009 in units and dollars, respectively.

10 May 2010

I wrote this column in early 2008 listing machining “megatrends.” It still holds up, but because it was written before the crash, a couple of the points (on employment and currency) have acquired a prescience I never intended.Recently, I got a note from a shop I visited that included an example of another of the trends in that column: the push away from mid-sized workpieces toward more extreme workpiece sizes.

Measurement 7 May 2010

Five-Axis Head for Touch-Trigger Inspection on CMMs

Utilizing technology developed for its Revo measurement system, Renishaw says its PH20 probe head offers “head touches” for rapid touch-trigger measurement and fast, infinite, five-axis positioning for optimal feature access.