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Basics
How To Eliminate The Estate Tax
Transferring the wealth that took you a lifetime to accumulate is one of the most complicated and perplexing problems you must solve. Why? Because of the estate tax monster.
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Understanding Surface Location Error
Change your speed by a few hundred rpm and the tool’s effective cutting radius may change.
Read MoreThe Power Of Two
A common theme of this column is tax secrets of the wealthy. The secret of wealthy people is a system designed to accomplish two purposes: to show successful business owners (and other persons of means) how to keep all their wealth in the family instead of losing it to the IRS; and to show you how to keep absolute control of your wealth, including your business, for as long as you live.
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Dressing Well: The Key To Grinding Quality
Because the nature of the interface between wheel and workpiece largely defines grinding quality and efficiency, it's essential to maintain optimum conditions within this critical zone. Therein lies the key to sustaining grinding as a competitive process.
Read MoreReducing Program Execution Time
How much cutting motion time is in your program? If you’re interested in reducing program execution time, it is helpful to determine how much of the program’s execution time is related to cutting motions (G01, G02, G03 and so on) and how much is related to non-cutting motions including rapid motions, tool changes and miscellaneous functions. Wouldn’t it be nice if all of program execution time is cutting motion time? This is not possible—but unless you know how much of a program’s execution is made up of non-cutting motion time, you’ll never consider improving it.
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When Two Spindles Are Better Than One
Machining centers with multiple spindles offer a compromise between flexibility and productivity. Different machine designs use the multiple spindles in different ways.
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Manufacturer Learns How To Use Cutting Tools More Effectively
In today's competitive climate, cutting tool manufacturers have to do more than just produce tools--they have to help customers use those tools effectively.
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Getting To Know Knowledge-Based Machining
The term refers to different levels of automation that CAM software developers are building into their NC programming software.
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Getting To Know Grob
With some familiar names in the machine tool building business fading away recently through mergers, acquisitions, or shutdowns, it may be interesting to learn of an unfamiliar or little known machine tool builder.
Read MoreBack To Basics With The Simple Two-Bin Reorder System
We certainly have managed to make many things overly complicated during recent years. For example, we have invested great sums of money in complex computer systems designed to tell us when to order parts.
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