MMS Blog

Getting Ramped up on Swiss-Types

Swiss-type lathes present unique challenges to operators who aren’t familiar with them. Here are a few.

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Top Shops

Best Practices of Top U.S. Shops

Results from our fifth annual Top Shops benchmarking survey reveal operational metrics, strategies and tools common to leading machine shops here in the States.

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The Lowdown on Machine Tool Lubricants

Need help choosing the right lubricant for your machine tools and workplace environment? Here’s a resource to help keep your equipment humming along.

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Video: Free Kit for Hosting a Manufacturing Day Event

The Edge Factor has produced a turnkey package with media and interactive resources to help companies create an exciting event showcasing manufacturing.

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Milling Tools

Video: Machining API Groove with “Spirograph” Tool Path

A system for turning oil-industry face grooves on a machining center uses an adjustable toolholder along with an NC code generator for creating the unusual path.

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Easing the Entry into Additive Manufacturing

With funding from America Makes, Optomec and MachMotion worked together to develop a retrofit additive manufacturing system for machining centers.

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CAD/CAM

Adaptive Machining Makes a Robot More Productive

This system for machining and polishing turbine blades shows the value of software for inspection, toolpath calculations and adaptive machining working together.

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Basics

One-Offs Without Tradeoffs

Does it have to be expensive to produce a one-off part? Does the one-off have to fall short of the manufactured part’s properties? A Boston-area 3D printer maker has an idea for how to produce components that are both low quantity and industrial quality.

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Cutting Tools

Broader Range of Applications Ahead for Ceramic Inserts?

Greenleaf's phase-toughened ceramic inserts could prove that this kind of technology has a future in more universal milling and turning applications.

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Five-Axis

The Art and Science of Hand-Scraping Ways on CNC Machine Tools

Hand-scraping the mating surfaces of a CNC machine tool’s motion system offers myriad advantages.

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Automation

Surprises Uncovered at a Groundbreaking

Companies customarily mark new construction with a groundbreaking ceremony. Such an event to celebrate Hydrotech Inc.’s expansion of its suburban Cincinnati headquarters, however, revealed some unexpected facets to this diverse fluid power and automation solutions provider.

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Measurement

Visiting Renishaw in the UK

The unveiling of Renishaw’s new 153,000-square-foot Innovation Center gave me a good opportunity to visit a company in the UK that I’ve known for years.

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