Authors

Bernard North is director of materials and process development for Kennametal Inc., Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

Bernie McAloon is sales manager for Royal Machine and Tool Corp., Berlin, Conneticut. For more information about the company’s workholders, call (860) 828-6555 or visit www.royalworkholding.com.

Bill Bither is co-founder and CEO of MachineMetrics, Northampton, Mass. For more information about the company’s machine monitoring and OEE software, call (413) 341-5747 or visit www.machinemetrics.com.

Bill Bryson is the author of two books about heat treating and has conducted over 240 industry seminars on the subject. Bryson is the president of Advisor In Metals, Milton, New Hampshire, and he answers questions about heat treating via e-mail ([email protected]).

Bill Fiorenza is product manager-die and mold for Ingersoll Cutting Tools, Rockford, Illinois. For more information about the company’s cutting tools, call 815-387-6600 or visit www.ingersoll-imc.com.

Bill Hindman is president of Industrial Marketing Services Inc., Elk Grove Village, Ill. He joined IMS more than 25 years ago and has written many articles on manufacturing technology and product applications.

Bill Howard is vertical machining center product manager for Makino Inc., Mason, Ohio. He has more than 35 years in various engineering and manufacturing sales roles, including more than 28 years in the machine tool and capital equipment field. For more information about Makino's 2+3 machining technique, call 513-573-7200 or visit www.makino.com.

Bill Kennedy, based in Latrobe, Pa., is a former contributing editor for Cutting Tool Engineering. He has an extensive background as a technical writer.

Bill Pflager is senior applications engineer for Norton | Saint-Gobain Abrasives. For more information about Bill, visit www.nortonabrasives.com or contacting the Norton | Saint-Gobain Abrasives application engineering team.

Bob Hodge is president of Advanced Spindle Technology LLC, a spindle service company with facilities in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. For more information, call 833-854-2579 or visit www.astspindles.com.

Bob Madewell is vice president of sales and marketing for Te-Co, Union, Ohio.

Bob Warfield founded CNCCookbook.com and built it up to be one of the most popular CNC Blogs on the Internet. Thanks to his work with CNCCookbook and the G-Wizard software series, Warfield routinely receives questions from shops all over the world. For more information about the CNC Chef, visit his website here.