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Premiering Today: Edge Factor Episode at Center Rock
The latest episode of The Edge Factor takes you through the story of the drilling team that worked to free the miners trapped in the Chilean mine last year.
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Extreme Cold is a Hot Technology
Despite its name, coolant often doesn’t provide much cooling. Here’s a different approach to enhancing tool life that involves dramatically cooling the tool.
Read MoreMMS Blog is 1 Year Old
Today is the one-year anniversary of Modern Machine Shop’s blog going live.
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Video: Cryogenic Machining of Titanium
Through-tool liquid nitrogen turns the tool into a heat sink, extending tool life.
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Video: Machining Long Parts Through a Small Machining Center
Video from Chiron America demonstrates the company’s Multi-Profile System, which combines a machining center with in-feed and out-feed accessories so that the compact machine can mill and drill long parts.
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How Cameras Improve Capacity
Web cameras provide an inexpensive way to bring remote processes together, and to improve timing and confidence in unattended machining.
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Incremental Automation
This machine tool supplier sees shops searching for just a little bit of unattended capacity. Many shops are closer to obtaining this extra capacity than they realize.
Read MoreRosie the Riveter Was a Cellist
A beautiful story came to an end late last year, when Geraldine Doyle passed away at age 86.
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Finding the Next Better Cutting Tool
Substrates, coatings, geometries and other aspects of cutting tools keep on getting better.
Read MoreWhat is Your Cost Model Costing You?
Some savings are hard to measure precisely, particularly on a per-part basis. That doesn’t mean those savings don’t exist.
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Video: Safe Shrink-Fit Has Built-in Cooling
The cycle for heating the toolholder also includes water cooling so the toolholder finishes cool.
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Does It Have to Cost Green to Be Green?
We wanted to ask about environmental or “green” initiatives in our “Top Shops” Industry Survey, but in discussing the matter among the MMS staff, we realized that it’s hard to pin down what “green” really means.
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