Salary rebound: Industry Trends & Analysis
Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's biennial salary survey for 2014 shows the earnings of metalworking professionals heading upward.
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Making the invisible visible: Inspection Efficiency
A tool inventory management system shows who's using what and for what purpose.
Vertical automation
Teach your vertical machining center to "dance without a partner."
Launch pad: Threadmilling is an attractive alternative to tapping
Orbital thread milling is an attractive alternative to tapping, according to a report filed by Walter AG.
Certifiably consistent: Medical Manufacturing
Certifications help shops develop consistent quality assurance practices -- and new business.
Saving face: Get a grip on machined parts with face drivers
When turning long parts, the traditional workholding technique is to chuck one end of the part and support the other end with a live or dead center. This is generally effective but has two drawbacks.
Machine monitoring morphs
Advances in software, sensors and connectivity create more choices and greater accessibility for machine monitoring.
Fill in the gaps: Drilling Performance
Tapered-pipe applications call for interrupted-thread taps.
Higher gear: General Industry Coverage
Gear makers embrace indexable-insert tools.
Balanced equations: Toolholder vibration makes for miserable machining, but balancing can help
Unbalanced tool holders create excessive heat in the spindle bearings, which, along with the vibration, can cause premature spindle failure.
Rain rider: JDA Aqua Cutting and JDA Custom offer both machining services and motorcycle-related products
The manufacturing industry has a long tradition of machine shop employees wanting to be their own boss and starting their own shops. Gary Lee took a similar path but with a twist.
Potent portables: Portable CMM arms bring sophisticated inspection to the shop floor
The basis of the portable CMM arm is to allow an operator to reach and touch the part to be measured with a hard probe and collect data.
