Medical & Healthcare

I'm a big a supporter of my local community college's machining programs. There's one facet of machine shop management a classroom can't prepare a student for, though: the constant, yet unexpected, gear shifting that goes on when you're running a shop.

New and traditional part grinding technologies combine to control vibration and improve precision.

Tucked into the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, Linda Tool, a family-owned machine shop, is adding to its capabilities.

Multisensor measurement can make part inspection for machine shops more efficient.

Stock Drive Products offers miniature pillow block ball bearings from Spyraflo.

With its EcoCCore system now superseding the previous 81C/P equipment series, Durr Ecoclean says it is setting new standards in solvent-based part cleaning.

Methods Machine Tools Inc. has announced the introduction of the new Yasda YBM 640V3 3-Axis CNC vertical jig borer, which provides high-speed, precision boring and milling operations for high accuracy mold, die and complex component manufacturing.

Unison Corp. announces the introduction of its new 7-axis Model 2850MT CNC microtool grinder.

Tom Lipton, the author of Cutting Tool Engineering's Shop Operations column, shares a trick he learned that reveals an interesting use of relatively crash-proof soft metal or plastic bed plates on a milling machine.

Debating the need for CAM systems on Swiss-style machines.

The use of conversational programming is growing and may influence tomorrow's conventional machine controls.

When cleaning parts, there is general cleaning and then there is precision cleaning. Both types are important in medical device manufacturing, but precision cleaning -- repeatable removal of contaminants to a specified, usually validated standard -- has become more prevalent in part because of increasingly stringent Food and Drug Administration oversight of the manufacturing process, resulting in stricter process QC.