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Industry
Machinery & Equipment Manufacturing
Rightsizing Machine Tools
Experts weigh in on how to buy smart—for today and tomorrow.
Mastering the Metalcutting Macarena
Machine tool builders and CAM software developers work to make 5-axis machining more flexible and accessible.
Big Ideas for Workholding
Holding large workpieces, especially heavy ones, requires parts manufacturers be more mindful of workholder and machine tool limits than they have to be with smaller workpieces. Also, shops may need to improvise when a conventional workholder can't secure a large workpiece.
Your shop’s working people
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Building for Micromachining
Creating the machine tools that make microparts.
Modern Maintenance
New machine tool maintenance products and services focus on uptime.
Light-Heavyweight Machining
Machine tool requirements for cutting large, lightweight titanium parts. Machining centers fulfill demand for heavyweight machining of difficult-to-cut, lightweight workpieces.
Rock Solid
Special plant for building ultraprecise machine tools.
Larger Issues
Big machine tools for making big parts.
Right Sized
Machine tool builder and its micromilling machine.
All Together Now: Step-NC
STEP-NC: A more advanced, data-rich language designed to overcome the current standard for defining the movement of machine tool axes.