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Articles September 23, 2025
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Videos September 1, 2025
Maximize Machine Uptime – By Streamlining Tool Setups Offline
Maximize machine uptime by streamlining tool setups offline. Manual tool setups are time consuming, inefficient, and a thing of the past. Today's most efficient shops integrate a presetter to maximize uptime, boost accuracy, ensure consistency, and improve overall machining efficiency - for both mills and lathes. Elbo Controlli Nikken presetters by Lyndex-Nikken provide rock solid precision, making them ideal for workshop environments.
Videos September 1, 2025
Maximize Machine Uptime – By Streamlining Tool Setups Offline
Maximize machine uptime by streamlining tool setups offline. Manual tool setups are time consuming, inefficient, and a thing of the past. Today's most efficient shops integrate a presetter to maximize uptime, boost accuracy, ensure consistency, and improve overall machining efficiency - for both mills and lathes. Elbo Controlli Nikken presetters by Lyndex-Nikken provide rock solid precision, making them ideal for workshop environments.
Articles June 26, 2025
Supplemental digital content for ‘Smarter Setups’ article
This page features the supplemental digital content associated with the "Smarter Setups" feature article in the June/July 2025 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine. Embedded below are brief videos focused on tool presetter technology from Lyndex-Nikken, Haimer USA and BIG DAISHOWA. Also included are links to the online presetter ROI calculators offered by Lyndex-Nikken and BIG DAISHOWA. The calculators are there to help shops estimate the time it will take a presetter to pay for itself in cost savings once it is implemented.
Articles June 18, 2025 Dennis Spaeth
Smarter Setups
Tool presetters are helping small shops reduce setup time, minimize scrap, and improve consistency across machines.
News May 16, 2025
Zoller expands, reimagines California facility
Zoller, the global leader in tool presetting, inspection, and tool management solutions, proudly announces the grand reopening of its expanded Zoller Pacific facility in Torrance, California.
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