Machinery & Equipment Manufacturing

Determining the appropriate coating or combination of multilayered coatings for an application requires tool coating companies to consider many factors.

Public Law No. 11921, formally known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, reshapes the tax landscape for machining, metalworking and manufacturing companies.

The Manufacturing Technology Series West (formerly Westec) kicks off Oct. 7 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Schedule at a glance.

Preventing tool breakage during machining is a significant challenge, leading to tool holder failures and costly replacements. Iscar's CER-M-TURN system addresses this by allowing the replacement of only the affected cartridge when an insert breaks, rather than the entire tool holder.

Engineered for aluminum, STREAKERS M213 end mills deliver fast, free-cutting performance—even during aggressive moves like ramping and plunging. These tools are built for high metal removal and consistent part quality. Now through 9/30/25: The more you buy, the more you save!

Maximize machine uptime by streamlining tool setups offline. Manual tool setups are time consuming, inefficient, and a thing of the past. Today's most efficient shops integrate a presetter to maximize uptime, boost accuracy, ensure consistency, and improve overall machining efficiency - for both mills and lathes.

Produced by CemeCon, this five-minute video offers a visual overview of the pre-treatment, coating and post-treatment steps the company takes to apply a PVD coating to tools using its high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) method. (No audio.)

In this video, Terry Iverson, founder of Champion NOW!, shares the story behind the Jerry R. Iverson Memorial Scholarship and how it honors his father's legacy in manufacturing. He explains how the scholarship is funded, who it supports, and why it matters for the future of the industry.

Process capability is a valuable concept used by automotive manufacturers that machine shops should consider adopting to improve productivity.

If a milling strategy comes along that promises critical advantages like higher productivity & longer tool life, it should be no surprise shops flock to it

Reducing setup time between jobs and enabling a machine tool to spend more time producing chips boosts the bottom line.

Platinum Tooling showroom at its distribution facility intended to help industry visitors learn more about its lines of precision machine tool accessories.