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Articles • July 21, 2025

Platinum Tooling Showroom Tour

Platinum Tooling showroom at its distribution facility intended to help industry visitors learn more about its lines of precision machine tool accessories.

Articles • July 21, 2025

Thread Milling Machining Parameters

While delving into thread milling for this column, Brandt Taylor met and learned something new from an EMUGE-FRANKEN expert on high-volume production.

Articles • July 21, 2025

Grinding Fatigue

The Grinding Doc reviews a recent finding that bad grinding caused an Alaska Air Boeing 737's landing gear to fail during landing on Aug. 30, 2023.

Articles • July 21, 2025

Zero Is The Point

Reducing setup time between jobs and enabling a machine tool to spend more time producing chips boosts the bottom line.

Articles • July 21, 2025

Lauding Light Cutting

If a milling strategy comes along that promises critical advantages like higher productivity & longer tool life, it should be no surprise shops flock to it

Articles • July 21, 2025

Process Capability

Process capability is a valuable concept used by automotive manufacturers that machine shops should consider adopting to improve productivity.

Articles • July 21, 2025

Holding Long Overhangs

When machining component features like deep pockets, long bores or intricate internal cuts, tooling setups with long overhangs are usually unavoidable.

Articles • July 21, 2025

Getting In Gear With Shot Peening

A Rosler shot peening machine that provides high throughput helped BMW precisely and quickly surface finish gear components for electric vehicles.

Articles • June 26, 2025

Supplemental digital content for ‘Let Precision Be Your Guide’

This page features the supplemental digital content associated with the "Let Precision Be Your Guide" feature article in the June/July 2025 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine. Embedded below are brief videos about Swiss-style machining technology from INDEX Corp. and MAZAK Corp.

Articles • June 26, 2025

Supplemental digital content for ‘Smarter Setups’ article

This page features the supplemental digital content associated with the "Smarter Setups" feature article in the June/July 2025 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine. Embedded below are brief videos focused on tool presetter technology from Lyndex-Nikken, Haimer USA and BIG DAISHOWA. Also included are links to the online presetter ROI calculators offered by Lyndex-Nikken and BIG DAISHOWA. The calculators are there to help shops estimate the time it will take a presetter to pay for itself in cost savings once it is implemented.

Articles • June 18, 2025 • Brandt Taylor

Intro To Thread Milling

Thread milling offers an alternative to tapping, ideal for large diameters and tough materials, with advantages in control and flexibility.

Articles • June 18, 2025 • Tom Stamborski

The Cash Flow Conundrum

Late invoice payments strain manufacturers. Learn how invoice financing and proactive strategies can improve cash flow.