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Social Media for Machining Businesses
No, social media is not necessary for a business such as a job shop or a tool and die shop. However, these media channels are an easy way to improve overall company awareness.
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Nesting Creates a Milling Challenge
This job shop uses remaining steel stock to hold a mated pair of aircraft parts.
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The Savings from Tool Dispensing
Efficient ordering and restocking of cutting tools can save a shop downtime and inventory costs. Watch a video from Joe Gibbs Racing explaining how they use a tool dispensing system to avoid these costs.
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From Automotive to Archery
Read how one job shop moved away from automotive and contract machining to making its own product—a line of bows.
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Going Lean in Order to Grow
This shop has a plan for dramatically expanding its contract machining business in high-value markets.
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Multitasking is Multiple Choice
Different levels of multitasking machine tools address different types of parts.
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Manufacturing for Mars
Many times, high-value manufacturers are extremely secretive about their manufacturing processes so their competitors don’t learn their secrets. Luckily, a manufacturer for NASA doesn’t have to be so protective. Here’s what we learned.
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Multitasking Calculator
Does it make sense to replace a series of separate machine tools with a single multitasking machine that performs turning, milling and drilling all in one cycle?
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Is Inflation Coming?
Depending on your answer to this question, now might be the time to invest in equipment, or it might be a good time to hire.
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Manufacturing and Innovation Are Connected
When manufacturing is offshored, we may lose many potential insights that can only come through the experience of producing things ourselves.
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Beyond Milling or Grinding
Ultrasonic machining opens new possibilities for NASA engineers using previously unmachinable materials.
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