Cutting Tool Engineering May 15, 2025

May 2025

May 2025 centers on threading aluminum and aerospace readiness, with additional coverage of cybersecurity, automation, reshoring, patent strategy and grinding variables that affect productivity.

Vol. 77 • Issue 4

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Tips and Tricks for Threading Aluminum Parts

Threading aluminum parts requires attention to chip control, built-up edge, lubrication, and thread quality.

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Varying The Workpiece Rpm: Design & Engineering

A shop asks the Grinding Doc to explain whether the option to vary the workpiece rpm on its cylindrical grinding machine is legit, and how it works.

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Patent Primer – The Process: Design & Engineering

Machinist's Corner columnist Brandt Taylor walks readers through the key steps involved in applying for a utility patent.

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Workforce Reshoring: Turning Performance

The May cover story explores the need to change the public's perception of manufacturing and the role workforce development plays in reshoring efforts.

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Next-gen Automation

Machine shops adopt intelligent, flexible systems to overcome labor gaps and streamline production.

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Aerospace Sets A High Bar

Insights into the intense standards, exotic materials and rigid processes that define aerospace manufacturing.

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Cybersecurity For Aerospace: Digitalization & Industry 4.0

With sensitive intellectual property, global supplier networks and connected technologies, the aerospace industry must make cybersecurity a priority.

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