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Tool presetters are helping small shops reduce setup time, minimize scrap, and improve consistency across machines.

Hardness affects tool choice, cutting parameters, wear, and heat-treatment decisions. This guide compares Rockwell, Brinell, and Vickers scales for machining work.

Explore ball broaching, rotary broaching, honing, and other non-traditional hole finishing techniques.

This page features the supplemental digital content associated with the "Let Precision Be Your Guide" feature article in the June/July 2025 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine. Embedded below are brief videos about Swiss-style machining technology from INDEX Corp. and MAZAK Corp.

This page features the supplemental digital content associated with the "Smarter Setups" feature article in the June/July 2025 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine. Embedded below are brief videos focused on tool presetter technology from Lyndex-Nikken, Haimer USA and BIG DAISHOWA. Also included are links to the online presetter ROI calculators offered by Lyndex-Nikken and BIG DAISHOWA.

Threading aluminum parts requires attention to chip control, built-up edge, lubrication, and thread quality. This guide covers the setup details that matter most.

With sensitive intellectual property, global supplier networks and connected technologies, the aerospace industry must make cybersecurity a priority.

Insights into the intense standards, exotic materials and rigid processes that define aerospace manufacturing.

Machine shops adopt intelligent, flexible systems to overcome labor gaps and streamline production.

The May cover story explores the need to change the public's perception of manufacturing and the role workforce development plays in reshoring efforts.

CTE Publisher works with industry leaders Harry Moser, Terry Iverson and Roy Sweatman to explore the critical need to change the public's perception of manufacturing and the role of workforce development in the manufacturing industry's health and future, particularly in addressing the skilled labor shortage and how it may impact the reshoring efforts.

Machine builder offers laser powder bed fusion technology for additive manufacturing of metal parts.