Peter Zelinski

Peter Zelinski Editorial Director

The Next Generation Zone

In time for Engineers Week, we have now expanded our site by launching a destination for and about the efforts to inform young people about manufacturing careers. Visit the new Next Generation Zone.

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Change What You Say About Engineering

National Engineers Week starts Feb. 17. To kick off the week, we need to take a look at how we describe engineering careers.

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CAD/CAM

Replacing Broaching with Milling

Trochoidal milling is a toolpath technique generally applied to increase tool life or material removal rate in hard metals. Manufacturing solutions provider Iruba also relies on this approach to make a shaped milling tool effective.

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Generation Growth Adds Mica Tool

Mica Tool & Manufacturing of Wisconsin is the latest machining business to be acquired by the Generation Growth Capital Fund.

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Stepping Up to the Next Machine Level

Two feature articles in Modern Machine Shop’s February issue involve shops that recently made a step up to machine tool types they had not used before.

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Interview: GE Aviation and the Morris Technologies Acquisition

The aircraft engine maker recently purchased two sister companies dedicated to additive manufacturing. Technology leader Randy Kappesser discusses the reasons for this move and what it means to GE.

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Video: Meet a Manufacturing Engineer

What does a career in manufacturing engineering look like? What does the work entail? Who should consider this field? For young people who might have the aptitude for manufacturing engineering, these are very important questions.

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There’s a Place Like This for You, Too

We created a video to give school-age kids an authentic look at the world of a manufacturing engineer. Here is what I hope my kids will see.

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Worth Three Machines

A shop that closely tracks machining performance says its new horizontal machining center delivers productivity comparable to three verticals.

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Turn/Mill

The Big Step Up

A small shop added two new machines, each of which is more advanced than any of the previous machine tools the company has used. One of the co-owners committed to the work of bringing both of these machines fully into service. Here is the shop’s experience so far.

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CAD/CAM

Engineering Changes as an Opportunity

It’s easy see unplanned customer changes as a headache, yet engineering changes also represent an opportunity.

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Measurement

Milestone for Multisensor Measuring System

OGP has shipped its 5,000th SmartScope Flash multisensory measuring system.

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