Connecting the dots: General Industry Coverage
A system to share real-time data between a lathe's CNC and bar feeder.
Editorial
Alan Richter
Alan Richter, a 40-plus-year veteran journalist, has spent the last 25 years covering the metalworking industry for Cutting Tool Engineering and currently serves as its editor-at-large. Contact him at [email protected].
Editor-at-large
Email: alan@ctepubs.com
Published content
Salary rebound: Industry Trends & Analysis
Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's biennial salary survey for 2014 shows the earnings of metalworking professionals heading upward.
Making the invisible visible: Inspection Efficiency
A tool inventory management system shows who's using what and for what purpose.
Gear maker solves tool puzzles
Increase chip control and prolong tool life when producing gears. Switching inserts.
The wind whispers bigger: Drilling Performance
Machine larger and more complex parts for the energy industry. A horizontal boring mill for machining parts up to 10' long.
CNC upgrade drives engine maker’s productivity
Extend the life cycle of machine tools that produce engine crankshafts and cylinder blocks. Upgraded CNC systems.
Height of accuracy: General Industry Coverage
A noncontact, standoff-height sensing system for waterjet machines.
Hard chrome replacement: General Industry Coverage
An environmentally friendly material coating with an extremely high bond strength.
Rain rider: JDA Aqua Cutting and JDA Custom offer both machining services and motorcycle-related products
The manufacturing industry has a long tradition of machine shop employees wanting to be their own boss and starting their own shops. Gary Lee took a similar path but with a twist.
Bremen Castings celebrates its 75th anniversary, but doesn’t look back
What do baseball legend Ted Williams slugging his first big-league dinger, Batman comics hitting the streets and Germany attacking Poland to launch World War II have in common? They all occurred in 1939, the same year Ellis Brown, Charles W. Kling and Harold Heckamen founded Bremen (Ind.) Gray Iron Foundry Inc.
Bringing back business is groovy
Regain business from a former customer by winning bids on a family of shafts with multiple grooves. Versatile grooving and turning tools.
Five-axis flexibility
Boost productivity by reducing machine downtime. Six 5-axis milling machines with pallet systems and lights-out manufacturing capability.
