Articles & Columns

Reduce downtime on three aging horizontal machining centers. Replace them with two new HMCs.

Repairing a spindle--the heart of a machine tool--is more economical than buying new, but part manufacturers need to understand the process.

Extend tool life when machining titanium vertebrae implants and supports. A shrink-fit collet and collet chuck system.

Are machine shops ready to use MTConnect, an open and royalty free standard intended to foster greater interoperability between manufacturing devices and software applications?

If you're new to 5-axis machining, simulation software can help you efficiently set up a post-processor and verify the strategies coming from the CAM system, according to this month's Get With the Program column.

Two basic strategies exist to minimize the Abbé error in machine tools: eliminate the causes or compensate the result, according to the Machine Technology column in the July 2013 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

The national conversation about the "skills gap" and its role in manufacturing continues to simmer, writes Alan Rooks of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, in his Lead Angle column for the July 2013 issue.

A Chicago broaching shop remembers its past to invigorate its future.\r\n

The Shop Technology column in the July 2013 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine continues to explore one shop's move from batch processing of machining jobs to a single-piece flow.

Four deburring methods for mass finishing microparts.

The Shop Operations column suggests that you should use every tool, trick and option at your disposal to get jobs out the door as quickly as possible because speed and momentum reduce costs when applied to part processing.

Eliminate component degradation on tool grinding machines. Switching to a low-viscosity, cobalt-inhibited, hydrocracked synthetic grinding oil.

Machinist's Corner columnist Michael Deren recounts how he responded when upper management issued a directive to increase throughput.

This month's Manager's Desk column suggests that good managers are able to shift gears and take maximum advantage of all business cycles, up or down.

The benefits of high-density workholding.

Coolants and the systems that apply them require regular maintenance.

Cobalt-chrome alloys are a good fit for medical and dental parts, but machining them can be a headache.

A new "particle beam" technology for machining carbon-based and ceramic matrix composites.

The Grinding Doc responds to a shop that is cylindrical-plunge grinding a threadlike shape into tungsten carbide, and is getting grinding burn on the leading face, but not the trailing face.

Eliminate applying two countersink tools and a tap to complete a machining operation. A combination tool that countersinks and thread mills.