- Multitask lathes edge in on machining centers
- Shop tackles tall, large, unique parts
- 5G test bed reduces measurement lag time
- How to choose the right toolholder
- A little lean manufacturing goes a long way
- Future of automated QC
- Cutting benefits of ceramic and cermet tools
- Software add-on gives shop fast results
- Machinist's Corner: Let’s have a one-on-one about goals
- Get With the Program: Choosing the best in advance condition monitoring
- Shop Operations: For this shop, it's about more than making parts
- Machine Technology: Good machines can come in small packages
- Manager's Desk: Get the word out on your shop
- Leap of Faith
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
July 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 7
July 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 702
Special digital supplement to the July 18 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering focused on defining truing parameters: a collaboration between Rush Machinery and The Grinding Doc.
June 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 6
- Sports R&D company adds VMC
- Natural disaster plan a must
- Gaining control of a blanchard grinder
- Avoiding Workholding Woes
- Despite its advantages, new technology isn't always embraced
- Getting a chatter diagnosis
- Shop-floor data analysis not negotiable
- Technological advances make laser machining more practical
- Grinding ceramic medical parts requires (diamond) grit, patience
- Working less can boost productivity
- Machine Technology: Machine tool controls with AI learn on the job
May 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 5
- Changing workflow: Bringing work to the workpiece
- Innovative turning process for vertical lathes
- Material-specific taps continue to evolve
- New approaches to machining microscale medical parts
- Deburring: an essential but often overlooked process
- Machinist's Corner: When suppliers are the weakest link in the chain
- Shop Operations: Do you tap or thread-mill?
- Get With The Program: Post-programming fixture design
- Lasers take Swiss-style lathes to higher level
- Machine Technology: Taking a turn for the better
- Manager's Desk: When not to listen
- Studying the impact of climate change on machines
April 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 4
- Machine Technology: Actions to keep spindles spinning
- Look Ahead: Nippon Bearing unveils EXRAIL roller guide
- Look Ahead: Mitsubishi introduces stand-alone M80W CNC
- Understanding coatings and how they lower machining costs
- Making the most of tired CNC machining centers
- Shop Operations: Precision at Mach speed
- Ask The Grinding Doc: Reducing hydroplaning forces while grinding
- Shop credits growth to focus on machining large parts
- Manager's Desk: Spring attitude adjustment
- Effective training programs improve employees’ skills, morale
- Your machinists are not the problem
March 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 3
- Look Ahead: Superfine-abrasive waterjetting
- Look Ahead: Staying on the cutting edge
- Shop implements system of safety tickets
- Productive Times: A 'liquid' tool change
- Factors to consider before bringing abrasive waterjetting in-house
- Advanced metalworking fluid filtration aids finer finish
- Moldmakers tout benefits of aluminum molds for production
- Reprogramming your reaction to priciest tools
- Gear pioneer Kate Gleason was way ahead of her time
- Rising complexity of machine maintenance
- Shop Operations: Don't hack away at chatter problems
- Cemecon opens new tool coating facility
- Shop bulks up machine arsenal to make colossal components
- Developing tools for cutting composites
- Machine Technology: Protecting man, woman and machine
- Manager's Desk: Protect proprietary company information
- Big market for colossal parts
February 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 2
- 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
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
