Magazine

May 2025 centers on threading aluminum and aerospace readiness, with additional coverage of cybersecurity, automation, reshoring, patent strategy and grinding variables that affect productivity.

April 2025 mixes additive manufacturing and difficult-material cutting with coverage of optimized cutting speeds, machine-tool buying discipline, capital-decision mindset and spring trade-show planning.

March 2025 focuses on smarter shop systems, combining generative-design machining, workholding, tool monitoring and software modernization with coverage of deburring, sliding-head tooling and coolant delivery in grinding.

January/February 2025 emphasizes cost-effective drilling and smarter process choices, with coverage of coolant management, custom fixturing, shot blasting, medical machining and the tradeoffs between labor efficiency and tooling spend.

January 2025 serves as an IMTS follow-up issue, collecting supplier booth coverage and product debuts across automation, toolholding, remote service, grinding and connected manufacturing.

December 2024 covers larger-part turning, parametric programming and aluminum machining, with additional reporting from IMTS exhibitor visits, cutting-tool innovation and brand-building on the shop floor.

November 2024 focuses on productivity and precision, with coverage of workholding, metal and composite additive manufacturing, AI-driven machine tools, boring accuracy and thread tapping in hardened materials.

October 2024 highlights IMTS takeaways, tool presetting and toolholder performance, while also looking at digital fluid management, 5-axis work in heavy equipment and cutting tools built for hard jobs.

September 2024 pairs cobot vision and tapping strategy with coverage of CMM competition, hybrid honing, Blanchard grinding and the financial planning decisions that shape shop growth.

August 2024 ranges from heat recovery and worker safety to runout control, toolholding and additive-finishing projects, with an added preview of IMTS drilling and holemaking technology.

July 2024 focuses on measurement, coolant and shop-floor practicality, with coverage of dust collection, workholding, deep-hole coolant strategy, broaching forms and workforce initiatives.

June 2024 centers on aerospace competitiveness, combining cutting-tool grades, 5-axis capability and real-time inspection with coverage of plate rolling, toolholders, saw blades, trade-show reporting and AI.