Machining

Articles • November 17, 2025

Machine Shop Innovation

NASA Glenn engineers created 3D-printed vibration-damping inserts that boost machining accuracy, cut cleanup time and improve prototype manufacturing efficiency.

Articles • November 17, 2025

Optimism and Uncertainty

Despite tariffs, labor shortages and tech gaps, manufacturers see renewed optimism—driven by automation, training, reshoring efforts and strong 2026 demand.

Articles • November 17, 2025

High Production Threaded Holes

Brandt Taylor explores high-volume threaded holemaking, highlighting EMUGE's THRILLER tools that drill and thread efficiently using helical interpolation.

Articles • November 17, 2025

Aligning Finance And Sales

Manufacturers grow stronger when financing and sales work as one—aligned cash flow, structured sales processes and flexible funding create predictable growth.

Articles • November 17, 2025

Advanced Machining Fuels Growth

Sugar River Machine's "2.0" strategy—facility expansion, Mazak multitasking tech, and diversified customers—is driving rapid growth and new opportunities.

News • November 10, 2025

Rollomatic hosts open house

With a focus on the company's flagship initiative "Road to Automation," Rollomatic Inc. hosted OpenHouse 2025 at the grinding machine builder's headquarters in Mundelein, Illinois, Nov. 4-5.

News • November 6, 2025

KBC Tools & Machinery celebrates 60 years of ‘keeping North America working’

In 2025, KBC Tools and Machinery is celebrating its 60-year anniversary. The six-decade legacy that began when Karel Bass started the ball rolling with a determination to "sell the best tooling at the best prices."

News • November 5, 2025 • Nozi Hamidi

The Shift From Reactive To Predictive Fluid Management

Quaker Houghton, a Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, industrial process fluids company with many decades of metalworking expertise, has developed QH FLUID INTELLIGENCE™ as a comprehensive digital solution engineered for the demanding requirements of modern machining environments.

News • November 5, 2025

Rowan University’s new lab advances manufacturing through artificial intelligence

The rapid development of artificial intelligence and the usability of large language models have promised to transform industries on a large scale, but first engineers must figure out how to integrate intelligent systems with real-world manufacturing methods.

Videos • November 1, 2025

New QUICK3CHAM Heads for Boring and Enlarging Existing Holes

When surface finish, diameter, straightness, or roundness requirements are closer than traditional drilling operations can produce, it may be necessary to add a drill, endmill or single-point boring tool to the operation, often at the expense of poor chip control.

Products • October 31, 2025

Face milling cutters handle tool wear, burr formation, breakout challenges

Ceratizit developed its new MaxiMill – S-Power face milling cutters with 12 insert pockets at Ø63 mm and double-sided indexable inserts to handle the tool wear, burr formation, and breakout challenges that the company says are typical in cast iron machining applications.

News • October 30, 2025

Sumitomo strengthens support for aerospace industry with business development team

Sumitomo Electric Carbide Inc. (SCI) has strengthened its support for the aerospace industry with the development of its Aerospace Business Development (ABD) Team.