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Articles • September 3, 2020 • Frank Burke

Manufacturing process can help part design

When designing parts, considering the manufacturing process can result in a better product, reduced cycle time and lower costs.

Articles • September 1, 2020 • William Leventon

Cuckoo for Swiss machining

Swiss-style machines are attracting plenty of buyers and might be right for you.

Articles • August 21, 2020

Threading exotic metals

Picking the threading process for difficult-to-machine materials can be hard.

Articles • August 13, 2020 • Christopher Tate

Big parts, big questions

How is machining large parts different from machining small ones?

Articles • August 10, 2020 • William Leventon

Digging into data mining

Shops can strike process improvement gold with tools that gather and analyze machining information.

Articles • August 4, 2020 • Dennis Spaeth

Salary Survey: COVID-19 report

A cloudy economic future contains a silver lining for manufacturers.

Articles • August 4, 2020 • Alan Richter

Salary Survey: Outlook for manufacturers

Salaries and benefits stagnated before the pandemic, which made matters worse.

Articles • August 4, 2020 • Alan Richter

Salary Survey: A tale of two respondents

CTE used a paid data collection option from SurveyMonkey to gather additional results for the 2020 Benefits and Salary Survey. Get a better understanding of how subscriber results compare with results from the survey service.

Articles • August 3, 2020 • Alan Richter

2020 Salary Survey

Cutting Tool Engineering's 2020 Benefits and Salary Survey shows that the incomes of many metalworking professionals are stagnant or down slightly.n

Articles • July 30, 2020 • Edmund Isakov, Ph.D.

History of Hertz, Newton and Pascal

In the fourth installment of Metric Matters, Dr. Edumnd Isakov delves into SI-derived units of measurement.

Articles • July 21, 2020 • Holly B. Martin

Tool coatings covered

Many toolmakers have reasons to bring coating capabilities in-house.

Articles • July 15, 2020 • Alan Richter

The allure of aluminum

Effectively milling aluminum requires balancing all elements of a cutting tool.