- Lead Angle: View from Earth will do just fine, thank you
- Automation helping small-to-medium suppliers compete
- Advancements in digital vision systems make measuring parts simpler, more repeatable
- Maximize preventive maintenance for machine tools
- Ask the Grinding Doc: Wheel tests on the fly
- Inverting the spindle on a vertical turret lathe can make a great lathe even better
- Deburring lab seeks to smooth rough edges faster
- Shop Operations: A few unorthodox machining tips
- Manager's Desk: Owning company communications
- Proper way to measure feature concentricity
Cutting Tool Engineering Magazine
Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, published 12 times a year by CTE Publications Inc., helps manufacturing professionals enhance the productivity of their companies' cutting and grinding operations, and provides essential insights for machining professionals. Browse through our digital issue archive below and select the digital format you prefer: via our Cutting Tool Engineering app, a PDF file, or an interactive digital edition that can be viewed on any device by visiting digital.ctemag.com.
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Issue Archive
February 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 2
January 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 1
- From Single-Task Machines to Backflipping Robots: The Evolution of Robots
- Poll reveals CNC likes and dislikes
- Tips for preventing workhardening when boring
- In Digital Manufacturing, the Product Is Intellectual Property
- Machinist's Corner: Raising the level of skills
- Get With The Program: Silo systems can't maintain equipment
- Shop Operations: Flat stones for fine finishing
- Productive Times: Abrasive globules for finishing
- Machine Technology: Added dimensions boost accuracy
- Look Ahead: Speeding up lubrication
- Look Ahead: A here-and-now gage
- Manager's Desk: Learn and don't repeat
- Lead Angle: Setting the stages for Industry 4.0
December 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 12
- Cutting oil fire risk requires precautions
- Manufacturing dignity for patients
- Manufacturing parts in outer space
- Look Ahead: Autonomous milling goes the distance
- Look Ahead: Flexible, accurate edge inspection
- Turning to improvisation to meet customer needs
- Poll offers snapshot of what matters to CNC users
- As economic outlooks go, 2018 is looking up
- Productive Times: Modular toolholder finds its groove
- Rebuilding a CNC machine takes skill and money. Is it worth it?
- Quick-change-jaw systems for chucks offer multiple benefits
- Get With the Program: From machine to CAM programming
- Shop Operations: Clever tools for finding an edge
- Ask the Grinding Doc: Avoiding chatter resonance
- Convertible headstocks becoming the norm on Swiss-style machines
- Large vertical lathes available at reasonable prices
- Manager's Desk: Shop owners need to review costs of services at year’s end
November 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 11
Cutting Tool Engineering's annual Buyers Guide issue.
October 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 10
- Look Ahead: All together now
- Look Ahead: Securing robots' 'personal space'
- Productive Times: Slicing through the challenge
- Modular fixturing pros and cons
- Navigating safety regulations
- Shop considers investing in 5-axis machining
- Get With the Program: Right from wrong
- Shop Operations: It's hip to be square
- Machinist's Corner: A look at D-O-W-N-T-I-M-E
- Chamfers and countersinks halt burr formation
- Machine Technology: Manually measuring 5-axis centerlines
- Understanding relationship between air pressure and flow
- Reaching new heights
- Three unexpected machine monitoring benefits
- Manager's Desk: Shops offer help after Harvey
- Lead Angle: Don't be scared to take five
- New approach to cutting heat-resistant superalloys
- Save time by setting tools offline with a presetter
- Autodesk: Constant cutting forces speed milling
- Longtime precision-machining shop adds 3D printing
September 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 9
- Look Ahead: Small advances in watwerjet
- Productive Times: Sold on a cell
- Investing in streamlined plant operations boosts profit
- Shop credits timing for successful holemaking operations
- Aerospace supplier lives up to challenges
- Alternatives to steep tapers
- Machinist's Corner: Show customers you care
- Get With the Program: Controlling the shop floor
- Machine Technology: No-hands tool changing
- Taking measures to improve metrology
- Three steps to optimizing machining
- No-cost thread mill program generators
- How to keep from scrapping parts
- High-pressure coolant breaks the vapor barrier
- Swarf is telling you something
- Manager's Desk: Shop owner deals with theft
- Shop Operations: A fresh look at 1-2-3 blocks
- 3D-printed bone drill improves surgeries
- Lead Angle: Targeting markets high and low
August 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 8
- Choosing a parts-marking method depends on the application
- Look Ahead: Trochoidal endmill (over)laps competition
- Look Ahead: Titanic robot, tiny tolerances
- Low-wattage lasers: faster, gentler, eco-friendly
- Factors affecting proper coolant application when grinding
- Lessons learned from threading nuts, bolts for gas turbines
- Process creates steel that's a-peeling
- CAD/CAM software for ultraprecision machining
- Explosive deburring ideal for complex parts
- Ask the Grinding Doc: Loading the wheel
- Shop Operations: Consider a 4-jaw independent lathe chuck
- Manager's Desk: Time to awaken the shop
- Machine Technology: Hybrid upsides and design considerations
- Lead Angle: Manufacturing and its myths
July 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 7
- The fundamentals of industrial sawing
- Look Ahead: an oscillating laser head for joining, cutting
- Look Ahead: a novel 3D-connector inspection system
- Productive Times: a high-torque conversion
- Productive Times: Productivity times savings
- Determining when a custom toolholder is a better option
- Machinist's Corner: New kid on the block
- Shop Operations: Get your bearings
- Abrasive waterjets now a viable 3D cutting option
- Get With The Program: Making the most of macros
- Rotary transfer machines: Eclipsing the past
- Machine Technology: Preparation automation pays
- Custom machines offer solutions standard ones sometimes can’t
- One mission, two bottom lines
- Manager's Desk: Smart phone policies for shops
- Considerations when having taps resharpened
- Selecting a turret or gang tooling for a CNC lathe
- Tips for shops set on moving machine tools DIY
- Workholding solutions for 5-axis applications
- Lead Angle: Are we near the peak?
June 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 6
- Look Ahead: Point-and-click robot control
- Look Ahead: 3D printing picks up the pace
- Scanning a hypercar
- Productive Times: Kick out the jams
- Productive Times: From dovetails to dimples
- Trim waste with proactive environmental program
- Routing new composite materials requires new solutions
- Success detected for noncontact inspection
- Dry, tight fluid connectors require the right tool
- Ask the Grinding Doc: The question is academic
- Shop Operations: Catch a tiger by the tail
- Workholding: Building chucks to hold wheels
- Cleaning corrupt CAD models
- One year into the future at GE
- Colson Group reshores manufacturing
- Advancements in edge finders
- Toolmaker targets titanium
- Machine Technology: Building 'monster' machines
May 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 5
- Look Ahead: Fast process for depositing ultrahard coatings
- Look Ahead: A grinding machine designed for sintered ceramics
- Overview of parts deburring
- Small shops warm up to work cells
- Shop Profile: From pewter to ultraprecision CNC machine tools
- Demand rises for ultrahard-material cutting machines
- Machining 3D-printed metal
- Cutting tool and CAM collaboration
- Lead Angle: Rise of the soft machine
- Sandvik Coromant president promotes innovation
- Get With The Program: Cutting tool and CAM collaboration
- Machine Technology: Automating one machine
- Machinist's Corner: Ya' gotta love your vendors?
- Manager's Desk: The new normal
- Shop Operations: A better way to shorten screws
- Productive Times: Bonded by light
- Productive Times: Twin cutter boring head reveals more value over time
- Micromachining: The art and science of micro-moldmaking
- Micromachining: The essentials of manufacturing microtools
- Keep machine tools, shop floor data safe from hackers
April 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 4
- Choosing the right boring tool
- Rapid prototyping on a CNC machine tool
- MTU America: Machining parts for large diesel engines
- The Knee Mill: Still Standing
- Swiss Smarts
- Machine Technology: Fine points of modern sharpening
- Workforce: Finders Keepers
- Ask The Grinding Doc: Grinding steel shafts puts shop in 'fowl' mood
- Shop Operations: Workholder setup reduction
- Chicago-based innovation center to stoke manufacturing
- Productive Times: Brushing away chamfering
- Look Ahead: Stiff competition
- Look Ahead: Humanizing robotic movement
March 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 3
- EDM focus turns to throughput, ease of use, automation
- Hybrid machine tools for moldmakers
- 6 tips for improving turning operations
- Honing seen as capable, but underused finishing process
- Packaging with care
- Machine tool school days
- Kennametal CEO's take on simplifying production
- Reaping the benefits of lights-out machining
- Culture-changing tools
- OSHA’s SHARP program for small businesses
- Machinist's Corner: Cheap marketing can have an impact
- Get With The Program: Maximizing spindle time
- Machine Technology: To extend or not to extend?
- Shop Operations: Odds and ends
- Machinist's Corner: Talking safety
- Proper fluid management, filtration keep sumps cleaner
- Productive Times: Capacity relief
- Look Ahead: Remotely interesting monitoring
- Look Ahead: AI robot finds its way
