Heat treating in-house: People & Companies
Buying a furnace or an oven to heat treat parts offers advantages compared with outsourcing.
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Productive presetting
If you use a CNC lathe or machining center to set tool lengths, you may want to go offline.
Maxing out multitasking: 5-Axis Machining
Get the most from combination turn/mill machines.
Part marking the traditional way
Ink coders are for simple, low-cost printing on all types of flat materials.
Selecting the appropriate drill design
Twist, indexable, replaceable-tip and spade drills can performed most machine work in today's shops.
Prototyping picks up speed with metal 3D printing
Today's metal powder bed printers make it possible to produce prototype and low-volume production parts from various metals.
Grinding gets smart
A builder of grinding machines is adding digital services to improve product performance.
Easing the grind: Medical Manufacturing
Having a tool and cutter grinder in a machine shop provides multiple advantages.
Work cells work: Drilling Performance
Cellular manufacturing steadily permeates the metalworking world
Swiss-style CNC lathes gaining popularity
Machine shops enjoy additional opportunities with sliding headstock lathes.
Working hard to avoid workhardening
Thread milling nickel-base superalloys requires minimizing workhardening.
Instead of breaking a saw blade, break it in
'A blade that is not broken in will likely only last about an hour. A properly broke-in blade should last 100 to 150 hours.'
