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The Ideal Climate Keeps Industry Safe
What is truly frightening about global warming is not the prospect of temperatures rising, but the zeal with which so many seem ready to beat down human industry in response to a hypothetical idea. 1.
Read MoreThe Starting Point
Speed is just the first step. Using that speed effectively may require changes to your assumptions about machining.
Read MoreThe Story So Far
When the time came to begin thinking about what to include in our latest special issue on high speed machining, I imagined an introductory article titled something like "High Speed Machining Comes of Age. " What was a relatively new idea several years ago is now much more widely known.
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Getting The Time Out Of Titanium
For Boeing engineers successful at high speed machining of aluminum, the next step is to mill faster in a more constraining metal.
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Standard Jobs Beyond Standard Speed
This job shop is defining the role of extremely high spindle speed in variable-volume, variable-part-number production.
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Expanding The Toolmaker's Role
Skilled employees from this shop's mold machining area apply their expertise to running production batch machining jobs better.
Read MorePrice Caps Are Worse Than High Prices
People who write about metalworking, including me, sometimes fail to choose their words carefully. They often speak of a "shortage" of skilled machinists, when in fact the problem is one of reduced supply.
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The Dynamics Of Better Drilling
Vibration is at the heart of a variety of common problems in machining holes. Mathematical analysis is helping to bring about a better understanding of hole-making processes...including how these vibrations behave, and what steps to take to bring them under control.
Read MoreIn Your Own Market, Take Stock
One of the emotions that came across at this year’s Westec show was hesitancy. Not gloom—nothing that extreme.
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Mold Machining In Motion
This shop's strategy for limiting lead time on large molds affects the choice of machine tool. It also affects who does the programming.
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The Fluid Transition
A watershed moment in spindle evolution? For the latest generation of high speed spindles used in milling, spindle makers look beyond traditional bearings.
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