Eli Plaskett

Eli Plaskett Senior Associate Editor

Cutting Tools

High-Feed Machining Dominates Cutting Tool Event

At its New Product Rollout, Ingersoll showcased a number of options for high-feed machining, demonstrating the strategy’s growing footprint in the industry.

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3 Lessons Job Shops Can Learn From Laser Cutters

This laser-cutting “job shop” designs its processes to make high-mix, low volume work profitable.

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Automation

Which Approach to Automation Fits Your CNC Machine Tool?

Choosing the right automation to pair with a CNC machine tool cell means weighing various factors, as this fabrication business has learned well.

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Five-Axis

CNC Machine Shop Honored for Automation, Machine Monitoring

From cobots to machine monitoring, this Top Shop honoree shows that machining technology is about more than the machine tool.

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Five-Axis

Open House Showcases Five-Axis Capabilities, Digital Tools

Five-axis machining technology was the highlight of the Hwacheon open house in Lincolnshire, Illinois this August. 

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Grinding

Joint Ribbon Cutting at Fagor, Danobat Showrooms

Danobat and Fagor co-hosted an inaugural event for their co-located facilities in the Chicago area.

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5 Tips for Running a Profitable Aerospace Shop

Aerospace machining is a demanding and competitive sector of manufacturing, but this shop demonstrates five ways to find aerospace success.

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Digital Solutions Dominate TIMTOS

At TIMTOS, many OEMs highlighted solutions designed to overcome challenges that may sound familiar to U.S. manufacturers.

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Automation

Shop Replaces Two Verticals With One Horizontal

By trading two VMCs in to help finance the purchase of a new HMC, this shop was able to significantly increase production and move to lights-out machining.

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Oil & Gas

Dielectric Oil Dramatically Reduces EDM Maintenance

Plagued by repeated small fires that interrupted its wire EDM throughput, this cutting tool manufacturer changed its dielectric oil and both eliminated fires and reduced its oil consumption.

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Shop Moves to Aerospace Machining With Help From ERP

Coastal Machine is an oil and gas shop that pivoted to aerospace manufacturing with the help of an ERP system that made the certification process simple.

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Automation

Reducing Prep Work With Precision Blanks

Precision blanks can reduce or eliminate prep work on machine centers, making spindle time more productive and improving throughput.

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