Derek Korn

Derek Korn Editor-in-Chief

Cutting Tools

What If You Don’t Have a Torque Wrench?

This device ensures that ER collets are torqued to the proper value using any type of wrench.

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Help Your Customers’ Engineers, Help Yourself

Here’s a way to clearly show how your shop’s design for manufacturability advice is helping your customers and, perhaps more importantly, your customers’ engineers.

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Top Shops

Top Shops Profile: Richards Industries

Richards Industries was 2017's Top Shops Honors Program winner in the category of shopfloor practices.

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Help Your Customers’ Engineers, Help Your Shop

One way to build customer relationships is by clearly demonstrating how your design-for-manufacturability advice is helping your customers’ engineers.

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Workholding

Establishing an Effective Hard-Turning Process

In devising its hard-turning strategy, this die/mold shop has been able to speed the production of its new deep-draw round tooling offerings by turning them instead of grinding them after heat treating.

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An NTMA Opportunity That Pays off in Various Ways

The National Tooling and Machining Association’s fall conference is coming up, and the association is offering our readers an enticing deal to attend.

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Laser & Waterjet

Nozzle Technologies Speed Fusion Laser Cutting, Reduce Gas Consumption

Two nozzle designs developed for fusion laser cutting are said to boost feed rates by 100 percent and reduce nitrogen gas consumption by as much as 70 percent.

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Measurement

Scanning Probe Application on a Swiss-Type

The following case study provided by Blum-Novotest describes how Karlheinz Lehmann GmbH in Oberwolfach, Germany, is able to maintain 2-micron parallelism of slots on a compressed-air coupling component for Parker Hannifin GmbH.

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Measurement

AUKOM Is Coming to the United States

The AUKOM coordinate metrology training standard originated in Germany, but it could become the de facto, global training method for future production metrologists.

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Top Shops

Top Shops Profile: Land Sea Air Manufacturing

Land Sea Air was 2017's Top Shops Honors Program winner in the category of business strategies.

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Top Shops

Top Shops: Live in Indianapolis

Join us September 2017 for our inaugural Top Shops conference, where industry leaders will present strategies and concepts aimed at growing your machining business.

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CAD/CAM

FEA for DFM

Shops that offer design for manufacturability advice can reduce customers’ machining cost and complexity. This shop leverages finite element analysis as part of its sophisticated DFM efforts, and this also helps in its efforts to establish long-term relationships with its customers’ engineers.

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