Cutting Tool Evolution
With so many cutting tools misapplied or underutilized, consider using interchangeable, indexable and/or a combination of the two cutting tool systems.
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Workholding Insights: 5-Axis Machining
Insights and important lessons conventional machines provide students training to join the workforce as a machinist.
A Welcome Cover Up: Drilling Performance
Determining the appropriate coating or combination of multilayered coatings for an application requires tool coating companies to consider many factors.
New Tax Law Aids Industry
Public Law No. 11921, formally known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, reshapes the tax landscape for machining, metalworking and manufacturing companies.
Spiral Machining
There has been an increase in demand for scroll, or spiral, compressors as the accuracy of the methods used to make them have improved.
Preview: MT Series West 2025
The Manufacturing Technology Series West (formerly Westec) kicks off Oct. 7 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Schedule at a glance.
Reshoring & Tariffs: Supply Chain & Logistics
Tariffs may drive U.S. manufacturing reshoring ... or not. Either way, small- and mid-sized shops stand to benefit from whatever work reshoring may bring.
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.
Holding Long Overhangs: Turning Performance
When machining component features like deep pockets, long bores or intricate internal cuts, tooling setups with long overhangs are usually unavoidable.
Process Capability: Drilling Performance
Process capability is a valuable concept used by automotive manufacturers that machine shops should consider adopting to improve productivity.
Lauding Light Cutting: Heat Control in Medical Machining
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
Zero Is The Point: 5-Axis Machining
Reducing setup time between jobs and enabling a machine tool to spend more time producing chips boosts the bottom line.
