Machining

Articles • September 1, 2013 • Alan Richter

Robot to the rescue

Produce additional parts without investing in a new machine tool and eliminate manually bending parts. A robot that is flexible and easy to program and move.

Articles • September 1, 2013 • Keith Jennings

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 that million-dollar jobs don't guarantee big profits.

Articles • September 1, 2013 • Michael Deren

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 them?"

Articles • September 1, 2013 • Alan Richter

Through the looking glass

An MTConnect app for Google Glass.

Articles • September 1, 2013 • Dr. Scott Smith

Shrink-fit toolholder fundamentals

Part manufacturers are always challenged to achieve toolholding connections that are simple, repeatable and stiff, and shrink-fit toolholders provide those requirements.

Articles • September 1, 2013

Brave new world for manufacturing

Cutting Tool Engineering Editorial Director Alan Rooks ponders the impact additive manufacturing will make on the industry.

Articles • September 1, 2013 • Kip Hanson

High-speed holemaking

Electron beam drills make short work of microholes.

Articles • September 1, 2013 • Christopher Tate

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 the past decade.

Articles • September 1, 2013 • Tom Lipton

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 crash-proof soft metal or plastic bed plates on a milling machine.

Articles • September 1, 2013 • Alan Richter

Flute polishing boosts surface integrity

Improve cutting edge integrity and flute faces of cutting tools. A flute finishing process that uses a fine-grit, hybrid resin-bond flute polishing grinding wheel, special truing wheels and fine-grit dressing sticks.

Articles • September 1, 2013 • Kip Hanson

Software optional

Debating the need for CAM systems on Swiss-style machines.

Articles • September 1, 2013 • Alan Richter

Making the leap to MQL

Minimize lubricant for a mass-production cylinder head line. Switch to minimum quantity lubrication.