Hardened by light: General Industry Coverage
The advantages of heat treating parts with 1µm-wavelength lasers.
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Time to part: Turning Performance
In parting, or cut-off, operations, the objective is to efficiently and securely separate one part of the workpiece from the other. To achieve this, a straight cut is made to a depth that equals the radius of a bar, or workpiece.
Worry free: Medical Manufacturing
Antipullout toolholders reduce scrap, increase tool life and eliminate anxiety while milling.
Old iron, new life: 5-Axis Machining
Retrofitting old machine tools with new CNCs can make more sense than buying new -- particularly for larger machines.
Product Showcase for August 2013
Learn details about the many new products manufacturers are offering the metalworking industry.
Cool tool
High-pressure, through-coolant drilling provides a host of benefits.
Heart surgery: Turning Performance
Repairing a spindle--the heart of a machine tool--is more economical than buying new, but part manufacturers need to understand the process.
Pulling through: Medical Manufacturing
A Chicago broaching shop remembers its past to invigorate its future.r
Smoothing edges: General Industry Coverage
Four deburring methods for mass finishing microparts.
Let’s chat: Tool Presetting
Are machine shops ready to use MTConnect, an open and royalty free standard intended to foster greater interoperability between manufacturing devices and software applications?
Cut the crashes: Medical Manufacturing
Machine simulation is the 5-axis programmer's constant companion.
Patented pockets: General Industry Coverage
CAM systems generate innovative toolpaths to quickly remove large amounts of material when endmilling.
