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Cold, hard and thin: General Industry Coverage
Ultrashort pulsed-laser deposition of diamond-like coatings.
How 3D Printing Speeds Up Automotive Prototyping
Producing prototype automotive parts via 3-D printing helps reduce time to market while boosting vehicle quality and fuel efficiency.
Metalworking product review for September 2013
A collection of metalworking products for your review.
Through the looking glass: General Industry Coverage
An MTConnect app for Google Glass.
Abrasive adaptation: Turning Performance
Abrasive waterjet users can benefit by learning about the technology's expanding applicability.
High-speed holemaking: Drilling Performance
Electron beam drills make short work of microholes.
Software optional: 5-Axis Machining
Debating the need for CAM systems on Swiss-style machines.
Sound advice: How to implement precision ultrasonic cleaning for medical parts and implants
When cleaning parts, there is general cleaning and then there is precision cleaning.
Talking cure: Medical Manufacturing
The use of conversational programming is growing and may influence tomorrow's conventional machine controls.
Brave new world for manufacturing
Cutting Tool Engineering Editorial Director Alan Rooks ponders the impact additive manufacturing will make on the industry.
Bigger is not always better
After working in the machining and fabrication business for 21 years, Keith Jennings, the Manager's Desk columnist for Cutting Tool Engineering, has concluded…
Shrink-Fit Toolholder Fundamentals for CNC Shops
Shrink-fit toolholders can improve grip, balance, and reach, but only when shops manage the full heating, handling, and runout routine correctly.
Machining the ‘unmachinable’
Tom Lipton, the author of Cutting Tool Engineering's Shop Operations column, shares a trick he learned that reveals an interesting use of relatively…
The power behind shop automation
Diminishing numbers of skilled tradesmen in the workforce and the need to reduce production costs have caused machine tool automation to proliferate during…
CAM initiatives help job shops succeed
When management smiles down upon CAM initiatives, shops can realize numerous benefits, according to the Get With The Program column in this month's Cutting…
Rep’s pitch is high and outside
This month's Cutting Tool Engineering Machinist's Corner column asks, "Why waste everyone's time courting a new customer if you aren't prepared to accommodate…
Flute polishing boosts surface integrity
Improve cutting edge integrity and flute faces of cutting tools.
Making the leap to MQL
Minimize lubricant for a mass-production cylinder head line.
Robot to the rescue: General Industry Coverage
Produce additional parts without investing in a new machine tool and eliminate manually bending parts.
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