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Challenging Swiss-style machining jobs can require specialty collets or novel applications of standard workholding.

Process monitors—either vibration or digitally based—help parts manufacturers save money and ensure quality on small production runs.

The cost of burrs in manufacturing are surprisingly high. Tracking and reducing costs or--better yet--minimizing burr formation can improve productivity.

Quality Mould Inc., a maker of molds for glass products such as lamps and headlights, thrives by leveraging its skills and using advanced technology.

In 2008, Heinz Kaiser AG celebrated its 60th anniversary, a year that also marked a change in the ownership of the company. On Jan. 1, 2008, Chris Kaiser, Karlheinz Kaiser and Gabriela Brasher-Kaiser assumed ownership of the company from their father, Heinz Kaiser, who founded Kaiser AG in 1948.

March 2009 Part Time column.

Today's Web-based training programs can get machine operators ready to cut metal r before they ever lay hands on a real tool.

A parts manufacturer finds that brushing the cutting edges of tools with nylon bristles extends tool life, improves part quality and reduces manufacturing costs.

Exploring the ins and outs of specifying and ordering a flexible specialty machine tool and having a machine builder produce it.

Machining polymetric composite materials with single-layer diamond abrasive tools.

The benefits of minimumquantitylubrication, which is suitable for many types of machine tools, are numerous.

Ballizing, lapping with wire and brushing are three simple and economical hole finishing techniques that yield impressive results.