Medical & Healthcare

TF410, the new fibre laser marking solution from Technifor Inc. is the entry-level version for medium- and large-run applications: automotive, medical, electrical or mechanical components.

Makino Inc. announces the new F-Series vertical machining center designed to provide stiffness and rigidity for chatter-free cutting, agility for high-speed and hard milling and accuracies for tight tolerance blends and matches typical of complex, 3-D contoured geometry associated with die/mold and medical production.

Manager's Desk column by Keith Jennings.

Ensuring optimal grinding of stainless steel medical instruments.

Milling plastics is just easy enough to be difficult.

The metalworking industry sustained a body blow in 2009, but it's getting back on its feet as 2010 nears.

A growing number of shops are shelving their taps and opting to thread mill heat-treated steel.

Ability to machine intricate geometries and hard materials drives growing use of wire EDM prototyping.

Engineered coating combinations control heat and keep chips flying in dry-drilling operations.

Productive Times report covering dedicated wheel truing, includes a brief video report about Myles Tool using the Rush Machinery Wheel Truer.

There's more than one way to machine a part. The trick is to match the part's complexity and volume requirements with an optimal production process.

As an owner or manager of a machining business, you have your hands full dealing with matters from the front office to the shop and everything in-between. Even so, nonproduction issues seem to be an increasing burden.