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Additive Manufacturing Belongs in a Machine Shop
A fourth-generation family machine shop integrates metal additive manufacturing as another production operation.
Read MoreAnswering, “It’s Not What We Do”
Every choice is a step toward a destination. Do you know where you want to go?
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Applications Advance for Solid Ceramic End Mills
All they need is speed! Tools for roughing nickel-based alloys can be used in the same processes as carbide tools, just with high rpm and no coolant.
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Video: Custom Workholding for Tool Regrinding
This shop uses a simple toolholding device on a machine meant for unattended tool production to regrind tools that already have their precision geometry.
WatchWhy the Surge in HMCs?
Spending on horizontal machining centers is forecast to reach its highest level in more than a decade. Small shops in particular are buying these machines. A shop I recently visited illustrates the reason.
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Device Quickly Inspects 3D Parts on the Shop Floor
Various technologies combine to realize all-around laser measurement of a complex part in a single, quick, automatic cycle.
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Video: Bar Puller for CNC Lathe
Automation doesn’t have to be intricate. This video shows a simple device for automating the operation of a CNC lathe.
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Titan Launches Machining Tutorial Website
“Titans of CNC Academy” provides free access to tutorial videos on topics ranging from modeling and programming to vise setup to the philosophy of faster cutting.
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Our New Column: The View from My Shop
Owners and leaders of machining facilities offer their perspectives in a new monthly column in MMS.
Read MoreThe Unseen Capacity
Capacity utilization figures conceal the likelihood that it is a particular type of capacity going unused. Also: the debut of a new column.
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One-Hand Quick-Change Vise Maximizes Freedom for Soft Jaws
A “four-leaf clover” device enables machining of deep profiles into four different directions of the jaw. Developed in a Pennsylvania job shop, the vise system is now marketed to other shops.
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Are Increasing Oil Prices Good for U.S. Industry?
The positive impact of oil prices on modern U.S. manufacturing offers an argument for questioning our habitual response to oil price increases.
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