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Product Spotlight Slideshow: Grinding
Our February product spotlight features grinding equipment ranging from abrasive grinding wheels to cylindrical grinding machines for large workpieces.
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Don’t Forget About the Top Shops Honors Program
In addition to receiving benchmarking survey reports, participating shops have a chance to be profiled in Modern Machine Shop. Learn more.
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Medical Shapes a Shop
Medical job and contract shops face challenges—some unique to the market they serve—that push them to become more efficient. Learn about the efforts this shop has made to clear the hurdles it has encountered along the way.
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Expanded Capabilities for Fiber Laser Cutters
New technology enables fiber laser cutting machines to be just as effective processing thick materials as they are cutting thin sheet metal.
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Finishing Methods for 3D Printed Parts
This manufacturer recently completed its testing of various finishing methods for parts made through fused deposition modeling. Replacing layer lines with attractive finishes is essential for 3D printing to produce components that consumers will see.
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Introducing GF Machining Solutions
Georg Fischer AG, the global industrial firm based in Switzerland, has a new name for the division that supplies well-known brands of electrical discharge machines, high speed milling, automation/tooling, spindles and more.
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Why a Dual-Column Machining Center?
According to this machine tool supplier, a dual-column or bridge-type machining center is 10 times more thermally stable than a comparable “C” style machine.
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A “Shortcut” for Bladed Components
GibbsCAM offers two options designed to simplify the programming of bladed workpieces such as blisks and impellers.
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Bond. Vitrified Bond.
New vitrified bond technology features proprietary chemistry to achieve higher performance as well as extended wheel life for today’s advanced grinding machines.
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What It Takes to Do Unattended Wire EDM
The promise of running a wire EDM for long stretches without much operator attention is enticing, but many shops never manage to pull this off. Here are tips to make it happen, as offered by Mark Cicchetti, EDM technical director for Absolute Machine Tool’s Accutex EDM product line.
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Gun Barrel Manufacturing Cell Combines Holemaking Operations
Precihole Machine Tools has introduced a dedicated manufacturing cell consisting of holemaking equipment to perform all necessary operations on the ID to convert a bar of metal to an assembly-ready gun barrel.
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Visit the Robots & Automation Zone
MMS Online has a new zone focused on robotics and industrial automation technologies.
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