Machinery & Equipment Manufacturing

Production of precise, tough oil-field components demands the use of sophisticated multitask machines.

Experts weigh in on how to buy smart—for today and tomorrow.

Machine tool builders and CAM software developers work to make 5-axis machining more flexible and accessible.

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.

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Creating the machine tools that make microparts.

New machine tool maintenance products and services focus on uptime.

Machine tool requirements for cutting large, lightweight titanium parts. Machining centers fulfill demand for heavyweight machining of difficult-to-cut, lightweight workpieces.

Special plant for building ultraprecise machine tools.

Big machine tools for making big parts.

Machine tool builder and its micromilling machine.

STEP-NC: A more advanced, data-rich language designed to overcome the current standard for defining the movement of machine tool axes.