MMS Blog
Metalworking Index: Strong Production and Supplier Deliveries Decrease Backlog Growth
The Gardner Business Index (GBI): Metalworking’s November reading of 54.7 marks the 23rd consecutive month of expansion.
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How to Continuously Improve Your Machine Shop
Monthly Kaizen events could help your company improve operations in 12 ways.
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Maximizing Machines, Empowering the Machinist: The Art of Shop Floor Efficiency
When the Great Recession hit Linda Tool, leadership for the 66-year-old machine shop decided against cutting staff. Instead, they made a series of strategic investments and decisions around five-axis machining that has allowed them to scale up the business without increasing headcount.
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2019 U.S. Machine Tool Consumption Projected to Grow 11 Percent
Full versions of the Capital Spending Survey and the World Machine Tool Survey by Gardner Intelligence, the research arm of Gardner Business Media, are available for purchase online.
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How Do You Sell Your Value-Add?
A shop shares lessons learned about alluring and securing profitable, long-term CNC machining contracts.
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Deliveries, Production and New Orders Lead Index Expansion
Weakness in exports seems to have little effect on total new orders.
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What Do Manufacturers Really Know About the Surfaces of the Parts They Are Producing?
Knowing only the average roughness may not be enough. Other surface parameters can affect product quality.
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Buying a Coordinate Measuring Machine: Technology Advances and Industry 4.0
CMMs are becoming more flexible with multi-sensor technology, which combines 3D non-contact laser scanners, five-axis scanning with a touch probe, optical systems and surface-finish measurement.
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Why Your Shop Needs an IIoT Roadmap
An IIoT roadmap defines a specific path for reaching data-driven manufacturing. This roadmap shows where a manufacturing company is starting out, and then defines how to proceed along a continuous series of implementations.
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Voice Control Technology Is Here for the Machine Shop
Voice recognition software has been a growing trend in the Industrial Internet of Things and is already changing the way we look at machine tools.
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Methods Commits to Medical with New Tech Center
The company says the facility is well-positioned to fill healthy demand for CNC machining equipment, service and support among medical manufacturers in the southern United States.
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News of Note: November 2018
Study highlights benefits of machining brass, Hirschmann appoints a new president/CEO, and other industry news.
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