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Milling Tools

Tool-Related Considerations for More Efficient Machining of Titanium

The expert in our Titanium Machining Zone offers advice related to coolants and coatings.

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Micromachining

How Do You Equip a Startup Micromachining Shop?

A response to a reader’s question includes a checklist for launching a small shop focused on micromachining.

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Turn/Mill

The Other Face of EMCO Maier

Just classroom training machines? No way! Visiting machine tool builder EMCO Maier in Austria, its home country, showed MMS Editor Mark Albert that the company is an important producer of advanced turn-mill machines and CNC precision lathes for both production houses and job shops.

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Aerospace

From Markers to Lasers

As aircraft manufacturers are building bigger planes, they’re looking for the ways to reduce weight.

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Basics

Why Shops Are Looking More to Swiss-Types

These days, more traditional job shops are installing—or at least eyeing—Swiss-types. Here are some reasons why.

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Aerospace

If It’s Good Enough for NASA…

Learn about an environmentally safe fire suppression system used on applications ranging from machine tools to space shuttle crawlers.

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Cutting Tools

Another Atypical Alternative for Creating Blanks

Learn about another atypical blank-creating process: electrical discharge sawing.

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Threading in White Iron

VIDEO: A PCBN200 insert from Seco is employed to create TR55 DIN trapezoidal internal threads to Acme 2 specification in 70-rc cast white iron.

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Holemaking

Premiering Today: Edge Factor Episode at Center Rock

The latest episode of The Edge Factor takes you through the story of the drilling team that worked to free the miners trapped in the Chilean mine last year.

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Investing in the Future

When the current workforce retires, who will be left to man the machines?

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What is Adiabatic Cutting?

If you’re cutting a healthy amount of workpiece blanks, then this atypical cutoff process might be the ticket.

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Extreme Cold is a Hot Technology

Despite its name, coolant often doesn’t provide much cooling. Here’s a different approach to enhancing tool life that involves dramatically cooling the tool.

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