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Machining Cobalt-Chrome Alloys Without Headaches
Cobalt-chrome alloys can punish tooling and process stability fast. This guide covers the practical setup, heat, and wear concerns shops need to manage.
Clean living: Inspection Efficiency
Coolants and the systems that apply them require regular maintenance.
What’s on your pallet?
Implementing automated pallet systems in small and medium-size shops can reduce labor costs and increase profitability.
Hidden gems: Drilling Performance
Overlooked areas can improve indexable-insert cutting tool performance.
Metalworking product review for June 2013
A review of metalworking products as compiled by the editors of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.
Single-piece flow the way to go
Single-piece flow keeps production moving, according to the Shop Technology column in the May 2013 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering.
Tips for operating a CNC mill
Shop Operations columnist Tom Lipton offers tips for operating a CNC mill.
Consolidating inserts to lower costs
Reduce insert costs and simplify insert reordering and stocking. Consolidate the number of ISO-standard inserts applied.
Fine filtering drives lights-out operations
Consistently produce complex cutting tools, even when unattended machining. A cellular grinding oil filtration system.
Health-care law is daunting: People & Companies
The future of machining is bright, but perhaps with a different generation of employees and a leaner business model than before.
I really, really love my job!
Learning to love your job can be frustrating, so says Machinist's Corner columnist Michael Deren in the May 2013 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering.
