August 2025
Articles in this issue
Getting In Gear With Shot Peening
A Rosler shot peening machine that provides high throughput helped BMW precisely and quickly surface finish gear components for electric vehicles.
Holding Long Overhangs
When machining component features like deep pockets, long bores or intricate internal cuts, tooling setups with long overhangs are usually unavoidable.
Process Capability
Process capability is a valuable concept used by automotive manufacturers that machine shops should consider adopting to improve productivity.
Lauding Light Cutting
If a milling strategy comes along that promises critical advantages like higher productivity & longer tool life, it should be no surprise shops flock to it
Zero Is The Point
Reducing setup time between jobs and enabling a machine tool to spend more time producing chips boosts the bottom line.
Grinding Fatigue
The Grinding Doc reviews a recent finding that bad grinding caused an Alaska Air Boeing 737's landing gear to fail during landing on Aug. 30, 2023.
Thread Milling Machining Parameters
While delving into thread milling for this column, Brandt Taylor met and learned something new from an EMUGE-FRANKEN expert on high-volume production.
Platinum Tooling Showroom Tour
Platinum Tooling showroom at its distribution facility intended to help industry visitors learn more about its lines of precision machine tool accessories.
Hexagon Gathering Emphasizes Industry Need For ‘true Autonomy’
For Hexagon AB, Stockholm, Sweden, 2025 marks a quarter century of measurement technology development since acquiring manufacturer Brown & Sharpe.