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Thread milling nickel-base superalloys requires minimizing workhardening.

The process is suitable for making a variety of everyday products, achieving fast, economical production when metalcutting machining just doesn’t cut it.

‘A blade that is not broken in will likely only last about an hour. A properly broke-in blade should last 100 to 150 hours.’

Columnist Michael Deren compares company benefits. How does yours stack up?

You can't say yes to every request but volunteering your time can be good for business.

CNC machines loaded with indexable tools are the foundation of modern machining.

Eliminating chatter, especially when boring deep holes, is one of the greatest machining challenges.

Rotary broach that lasts for 1,000 parts helps company enable lights-out machining.

Try these tips from machinist and moldmaker James Harvey in your shop.

Of all machining processes, wire EDMing is perhaps best suited for lights-out manufacturing with one exception, slugs.

B-Safe from Balance Systems detects collisions during machining, preventing damage to parts and machine.

Tool blanks are printed to make cutters to machine titanium.

Effectively machining titanium alloys requires suitable cutting tools, machine tools and monitoring systems.

With the new Taglens-T1 varifocal lens, manufacturers can achieve high-throughput noncontact parts inspection.

Multiple-axis machines increase workpiece accessibility but some jobs still require these specialized toolholders.

Swedish researchers break down the causes of tool coating degradation.

Keith Jennings reflects on the for better or worse nature of family businesses.

The Grinding Doc: Using a wheel with too large of a grit size and dressing dull likely the cause of OD burn—not bad cooling.

Kennametal answers with turret-adapted clamping units and quick-change toolholders.

Make mill/turn lathes and multitask machines into gear-cutting workhorses.