Walk the line: General Industry Coverage
Part Time column from the January 2010 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.
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A world of skills: Turning Performance
Youth skills training for machinists takes place in schools with metalworking programs and in connection with competitions, such as WorldSkills.
The fix is in: Inspection Efficiency
Indexable-insert tool repair can require a lot more than a manual machine. CNC machines and inspection equipment are often needed to effectively refurbish tools.
Why Shops Are Replacing Gundrills with Solid-Carbide Drills
A growing number of machine shops are switching from gundrills to solid-carbide drills for deep-hole applications.
Easy to be hard: Medical Manufacturing
Milling plastics is just easy enough to be difficult.
Finish line: Drilling Performance
Finishing hardened workpieces on multitask machines that provide grinding and hard turning and/or hard milling capabilities can prove beneficial.
Proactive progress: Industry Trends & Analysis
Productives Times: Proactive progress. End user: Ford Motor Co., Lima Engine Plant. Challenge: Improve productivity and maximize quality when machining aluminum heads. Solution: Replaceable-head reamers with PCD cutting edges. Solution provider: Mapal Inc.
Back from the brink: Medical Manufacturing
The metalworking industry sustained a body blow in 2009, but it's getting back on its feet as 2010 nears.
Grinding: A pictorial odyssey, part II
A further examination of the grinding process through the lens of an electron microscope.
Survival of the fastest: Turning Performance
Tool and cutter grinder software continually evolves to expedite production of advanced cutting tools by toolmakers and machine shops.
The new ‘carbide’ saw: Inspection Efficiency
Production and application of cermet-tipped circular saw blades continues to grow, eating into carbide's market share.
Where taps fear to thread
A growing number of shops are shelving their taps and opting to thread mill heat-treated steel.
