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A Very Handy Issue
Editor-in-Chief Mark Albert holds the 1986 August issue next to Editorial Intern Paige Henderson, who is holding the 2010 August issue. 1986 IMTS pre-show Issue 2010 IMTS pre-show issue Twenty-four years ago (before Paige was even born), my hand was on the cover of the August 1986 foldout cover.
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For CNC Users and Programmers, It’s More than a Newsletter
Mike Lynch’s monthly column, “CNC Tech Talk,” has appeared in Modern Machine Shop magazine since 1990.
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Prospects for Job Shops Look Brighter
Sponsors of the D2P shows use this imaginative illustration to highlight the appeal of bringing job shops and potential customers together in a tradeshow setting.
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AMT and NAM Announce Partnership to Promote Manufacturing
Doug Woods has been promoting AMT’s Manufacturing Mandate, a detailed plan to rebuild the U.S. manufacturing base.
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Numerical Control Makes a Splash—at the 1960 Machine Tool Show
Today, it’s difficult to imagine manufacturing without the aid of computers.
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MTConnect–Think of it as Social Networking for Machine Tools
At IMTS, attendees will be connecting with emerging technology such as MTConnect. (Photo courtesy of AMT—The Association For Manufacturing Technology.) We know how teenagers can use Facebook to keep track of who's got the biggest party planned for the weekend.
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Basket Weaving Goes High Tech
Laser ablation can texturize, engrave, mark, label and create microstructures on various materials with complex shapes.
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A Three-in-One Honing Station
Combining roughing, finishing and gaging in one station is a distinctive capability of the ECO 80 dual-expansion honing system from Nagel Precision (Ann Arbor, Michigan). The system is designed for low- and medium-volume applications that require submicron bore sizes and mirror finishes.
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Surface Texturing with Laser Ablation
Much of a product’s appeal to the consumer has to do with its look and feel—literally, the texture of its visible surface.
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Taking on Titanium
The challenge for the aerospace machine shop is to produce titanium parts productively and profitably. The challenge for the machine tool builder is to help such shops meet this challenge.
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