Derek Korn

Derek Korn Editor-in-Chief

EDM and Additive Manufacturing Similarities

Like electrical discharge machining, additive offers manufacturers an alternate part-production option. However, conventional machining won’t go away.

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Automation

Machine-Tending Robot Hits on Three Automation Trends

A new robotic loading system features a collaborative design, intuitive programming and the ability to be quickly redeployed to other turning centers.

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Welcome Barbara Schulz, Our First European Correspondent

Barbara is new to us, but not new to the industry.

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Toolholders

Automated Tool Clamping, Measurement

This system combines tool presetting with tool clamping to automatically set, measure and clamp tools.

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Top Shops

Benefits of Being Social

Social media is becoming a more popular marketing tool for shops. It also offers another avenue for us to identify top shops to cover in our magazine.

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Basics

Medical Shop Demonstrates How To Manage Risk for ISO

The new ISO 9001:2015 standard emphasizes risk assessment. Medical shops like Protomatic with ISO 13485 certification already manage this.

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Grinding

Remote Honing Analytics with MTConnect-Compliant Machines

Sunnen offers what it says is the first honing equipment that’s compliant to the MTConnect communication protocol.

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Cutting Tools

Custom Cutters Quicker

An online quoting service is said to speed and simplify quoting and purchasing of custom cutting tools.

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Top Shops

Top Shops Profile: Mallory Industries

Mallory Industries Inc. was 2016's Top Shops Honors Program winner in the category of human resource.

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Top Shops

Top Shops Benchmarking by the Numbers

The seventh-annual Top Shops benchmarking survey is now live. Here’s helpful information for those who have participated in the past and those who haven’t.

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Turn/Mill

Turn-Mill Machining Tech Improves Industrial Motor Performance

By replacing a welding process to create rotor cooling channels with multitasking machining from a solid forging, Siemens Norwood has realized improved induction motor vibration qualities and much faster overall rotor production times.

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Holemaking

Video: Thread Mill Without a Pilot Hole

This tool can drill a hole and mill threads simultaneously.

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