Lead Angle

Articles • July 26, 2021 • Dennis Spaeth

A shot in the arm

Business may not be back to pre-pandemic levels across the board, but the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute's spring meeting and the latest economic indicators are a welcome shot in the arm for the industry.

Articles • April 27, 2021 • Dennis Spaeth

E-cars: They’re coming

The future holds many exciting technological challenges for automotive manufacturing.

Articles • March 10, 2021 • Dennis Spaeth

Recovery by the numbers — believe me

Good or bad, up or down, expansion or contraction — CTE reports the numbers that serve as manufacturing's economic indicators.

Articles • September 2, 2020 • Dennis Spaeth

Lights, action, video

With the cancellation of IMTS, web-based video reports will take center stage. Fortunately for our audience, Cutting Tool Engineering has been building just such a video library for over a decade.

Articles • July 2, 2020 • Dennis Spaeth

CTE subscribers still at work

More than 97% of companies surveyed among Cutting Tool Engineering's subscribers reported that they remain open for business.

Articles • December 5, 2019 • Alan Richter

All about machining metal 3D-printed parts

Learn the latest on hybrid machine tools, large-scale printed parts and material removal from CTE contributors.

Articles • January 24, 2019 • Dennis Spaeth

Our secret weapon

Lead Angle: The key to the future is to adapt as a media company and be available on all the media channels our audience uses.

Articles • December 13, 2018 • Alan Richter

Growth expectations for 2019

Lead Angle: Editor Alan Richter chats with economic authorities in the aerospace, automotive and energy industries to find out what's coming next year.

Articles • August 21, 2018 • Alan Richter

IMTS: Hang 10 in Chicago

CTE Editor Alan Richter preps for IMTS 2018.

Articles • July 3, 2018 • Dennis Spaeth

Leap of Faith

Owning a print magazine such as Cutting Tool Engineering may not seem like a natural move for someone who has served as its electronic media editor for the past 11 years, but then jumping headlong into the great unknown is kind of a thing with me.

Articles • February 26, 2018 • Alan Richter

Big market for colossal parts

In his March 2018 Lead Angle column, CTE Editor Alan Richter takes notice of developments in large-part machining and previews an upcoming shop profile about Coldwater Machine Co.'s expertise in producing short runs of fairly massive components.

Articles • February 16, 2018 • Alan Richter

View from Earth will do just fine, thank you

While placing a telescope outside the distortion of Earth's atmosphere may seem like the best way to study the cosmos, CTE Editor Alan Richter holds a different view after the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization Corp. reached out to explain how it's working with Boeing Research & Technology on an Earth-bound telescope that will minimize distortion from the atmosphere.