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Article October 15, 2012

Tempering heat-treatment costs: General Industry Coverage

END USER: LMC Industries Inc., (636) 282-8080, www.lmcindustries.com. CHALLENGE: Heat treat tooling components in-house to reduce costs and turnaround times. SOLUTION: A dual-chamber heat-treatment furnace.

Article October 15, 2012

Overcome a weighty issue: General Industry Coverage

END USER: Whirlpool Corp., (269) 923-5000, www.whirlpool.com. CHALLENGE: Eliminate damage to toolchanger arms on vertical machining centers when replacing a step tool that exceeded the weight capacity. SOLUTION: A lighter, module-style, combination cutting tool. SOLUTION PROVIDER: Mapal Inc., (810) 364-8020, www.mapal.us.

Article October 15, 2012 Alan Richter

A sound system: General Industry Coverage

A second item in the Look Ahead section of the October 2012 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine covers an automatic, scalable component-testing system that combines acoustic and functional testing.

Article October 15, 2012 Alan Richter

Get groning: General Industry Coverage

This Look Ahead item features a CNC gear honing machine that uses a honing wheel with external teeth and reduces the number of process stages.

Article October 15, 2012

Help wanted: humans need not apply

There's no doubt that the U.S. manufacturing boom has created jobs. The question is, are they for humans or robots?

Article October 15, 2012

Seeing the light: CMM Inspection

Auto parts manufacturer Mann+Hummel reaps the benefits of optical scanning.

Article October 15, 2012 Kip Hanson

Making it manufacturable: Medical Manufacturing

New tools help parts makers design for manufacturability, which reduces machining costs and improves part quality.

Article October 15, 2012

Suggestions for improving manual mills

Shop Operations columnist Tom Lipton offers some suggestions for improving the design of manual milling machines in the October 2012 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

Article October 15, 2012

Combining post-processors, verification: 5-Axis Machining

The October 2012 Get With The Program column focuses on improving 5-axis machining by combining post-processors and verification software.

Article October 15, 2012

Reasons for stable milling zones

In his October 2012 Machine Technology column, Dr. Scott Smith, professor at the William States Lee College of Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, outlines the reasons stable milling zones appear the way they do.

Article October 15, 2012 Christopher Tate

Limiting tool vendors boosts efficiency

The debut Shop Technology column focuses on limiting toolcrib items and vendors to boost productivity.

Article October 15, 2012 Michael Deren

Don’t let perfect trump better

How many times does a project break down just from trying achieve perfection? Machinist's Corner columnist Michael Deren urges readers not to let perfect trump better.

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