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Digital Demo: X-Series CNC Machine for Extrusions
This unique fixturing system provides maximum hold with minimal clamping footprint to optimize spindle clearance and allow chips, debris and cutoffs to drop below the machining area and away from the spindle. (Sponsored)
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Business Award Winner Gains Traction on Strategic Vision
KLH Industries joins the 2022 Top Shops Honors Program with a renewed sense of identity, a new leadership team and new tools for driving growth.
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Building a Better Business: Lessons for Machine Shops From an Unexpected Source
Learning how to be a great manufacturer by listening to the insights of a different industry, homebuilding (which perhaps is not so different after all).
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Securing Processes for Automation
Securing a process for reliable automation takes much consideration, but many modern machines have features that can help.
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Top Shop Builds Upon Employee Ownership for Future Success
In its quest to become the Fox Valley’s best-in-class employer, A to Z Machine has adopted an ESOP, expanded benefits and invested in apprenticeships.
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A Case for Combining Workholding with Optical Scanning
Automotive dies and die inserts are often complex, one-off parts with little room for error. Integrity Tool's investments in modular workholding tools and 3D optical scanning have allowed the company to create niche capabilities for its CNC machined parts.
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Expand Machinery Swiss-Type Machine Offers 33 Tool Positions
Expand Machinery’s Genturn-52CS Y2 features a subspindle as well as dual C and Y axes to enable multiple operations in a single handling.
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Improving Workflows in Small Shops with Custom ERP
Small shops might not be ready for all of the functionality of an off-the-shelf ERP system, but modular, custom ERP programs can help improve workflow while providing the flexibility to change as shops grow.
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How to Drill Holes With a Right-Angle Head
Drilling with a right-angle head in a machining center spindle can be tricky – doubly so if the hole must be peck-drilled. A custom macro and careful attention to positioning help ensure smooth production.
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How to Turn Machine Shop Downtime Into Process Expertise
To take advantage of a lull in business, JR Machine devised a week-long cutting tool event that elevated the shop’s capabilities with aerospace alloys.
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Tool and Die Shop Discovers New Opportunities With First CNC Machine
In a shop that stamps millions of parts per year, the arrival of a CNC machining center is opening new pathways for production and business.
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5 Reasons Why Machine Shop Ownership Is Changing
Mergers, acquisitions and other ownership changes are an effect of Boomer-age shop owners retiring, but only in part. Also important: The way we think about machining has changed.
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