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View From My Shop Episode 6: Baker Industries' Huge Parts and Massive Machining Centers

In the latest episode of The View From My Shop, Modern Machine Shop takes a tour of Baker Industries, a manufacturer of tooling, prototypes and low-volume production components. See how this large-scale operation gets everything done across multiple facilities on the same site.

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How Manufacturing Data Can Save the World

Digital spaces rooted in real-world sensor data help scale big ideas and move humanity toward a more sustainable, autonomous future.

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Drill Sharpeners Keep Tools Cutting

IMTS22: Darex showcases its range of drill sharpening solutions.

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Full Coverage Lift Magnets Safely Improve Burn Table Output

IMTS22: Eriez’ air-operated Burn Table Full Coverage Lift Magnet Systems utilize a large full-contact magnetic surface area to move multiple parts in a single lift. The system is said to quadruple burn table production and improve safety conditions.

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Additive Mindset Can Aid Machinists

The mindset for additive flips subtractive thinking inside out.

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Soraluce Demonstrates Hardware and Software Advances at Annual Summit

The company continues to refine its large-format machine tools with its dynamic workpiece stabilization capabilities and connected software infrastructure. 

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Turning Machines

Threading On A Lathe

The right choices in tooling and technique can optimize the thread turning process.

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Five-Axis

The Strategic Value of Machine Tool Flexibility

This aerospace and defense supplier has a strategy to take advantage of the flexibility in its newest and largest five-axis gantry-type machining center.

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Basics

Understanding Swiss-Type Machining

Once seen as a specialty machine tool, the CNC Swiss-type is increasingly being used in shops that are full of more conventional CNC machines. For the newcomer to Swiss-type machining, here is what the learning curve is like.

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What to Do When Five-Axis Machining Is Off the Table

For Fischer USA, 3+2 machining with a high-precision rotary table adds flexibility without the cost of a full five-axis machine.

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IMTS

Automation Solutions Optimized for High-Mix Manufacturing

IMTS22: Fastems debuts its Flexible Pallet Tower (FPT), an automation solution for APC and no-APC four and five-axis machining centers.

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Economics

Metalworking Expansion Steadily Slows

All components of metalworking activity contributed to the slowdown, most of them for the second month in a row. 

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