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A noncontact, standoff-height sensing system for waterjet machines.

An environmentally friendly material coating with an extremely high bond strength.

Machine shop managers in various regions across the country say they have struggled to fill open positions, and that the job applicants they get often do not have the requisite skills. But the experience of one shop in Massachusetts suggests that the real problem isn't a lack of willing job applicants as much as it is a lack of pertinent training programs.

The Get With The Program column in the July 2014 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine delves into integrating automated nesting into production work flows.

Unbalanced tool holders create excessive heat in the spindle bearings, which, along with the vibration, can cause premature spindle failure.

The manufacturing industry has a long tradition of machine shop employees wanting to be their own boss and starting their own shops. Gary Lee took a similar path but with a twist.

The basis of the portable CMM arm is to allow an operator to reach and touch the part to be measured with a hard probe and collect data.

Part complexity combined with difficult material properties make deburring a challenge for many part manufacturers.

What do baseball legend Ted Williams slugging his first big-league dinger, Batman comics hitting the streets and Germany attacking Poland to launch World War II have in common? They all occurred in 1939, the same year Ellis Brown, Charles W. Kling and Harold Heckamen founded Bremen (Ind.) Gray Iron Foundry Inc.

Results from testing aluminum-oxide vitrified-bond wheels and diamond wheels in three different bond systems show the proper diamond roll dresser design, application methods and wheel specification can help manufacturing engineers achieve optimal results from continuous-dress, creep-feed (CDCF) grinding.

You may not have heard, but ultrasonic waves can help machine precise features into hard, brittle materials.

Spend enough time working in a machine shop and you're bound to pay a visit to the emergency room for a cut finger. First comes the sting as the ER physician injects you with a local anesthetic, then the tug of the thread as she drags the suturing needle, a type of surgical needle, through your skin.