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Are Manufacturers Doing Enough to Meet Staffing Needs?
(Photo courtesy of East Leyden High School, Franklin Park, Illinois.) When MMS published this article describing manufacturers’ difficulty with finding qualified staff, nearly all of the negative feedback I received came from Michigan.
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The Hole Range of Options
A seemingly straightforward question to the expert in our Micromachining Zone recently revealed an important point.
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Benchmark Your Machining Knowledge
Ryan Pohl, president of Expert Technical Training, says his company gives a 20-question, multiple-choice test to shops to evaluate their need for his firm’s “Advanced CNC Milling and Drilling” course. The questions cover important points—though not necessarily basic points—related to tools, toolholders, machine design and cutting parameters. Here is a link to the questions.
Read MoreModern Manufacturing in 12 Tweets
Here are a dozen brief points on the future of U.S. manufacturing.
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Re-Shoring Part 2
The next Contract Manufacturing Purchasing Fair has been scheduled for October 29.
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Just don’t Call it Vibration
The device for rapid peck cycles holds the drill like a toolholder.
Read MoreManufacturing Close to Home?
The shrinking of some machine tools enables them to be used in non-shop locations.
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Machining Center Turning
When you have many machining centers but not many lathes, there are ways to make due.
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Advanced CNC Milling and Drilling Quiz
A provider of machine shop training offers these questions for benchmarking metalworking knowledge.
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Drilling with Modulation Delivers Pecks for Free
A system for center drilling on Swiss-types and other small lathes oscillates the drill up to 1,000 times per second. Cycle time, part quality and predictability all improve.
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Video: Modulation Assisted Machining
This footage shows the effect of a techology that speeds and simplifies center drilling by oscillating the drill through many pecks per second.
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