General Shop Equipment & Supplies

The FlexiSan Modular Spraying System from BETE, a division of Exair, offers a portable spray solution that the company says enables mobility and effective cleaning and sanitization across a wide range of industrial applications. The company says FlexiSan system allows operators to quickly rinse and apply cleaning and sanitizing agents to a variety of equipment, […]

Apple plans a significant expansion of factory operations in Houston, bringing the future production of Mac mini to the U.S. for the first time. The company said it will also expand advanced AI server manufacturing at the factory and provide hands-on training at its new Advanced Manufacturing Center beginning later this year. Altogether, Apple says […]

Machining firms in North America have a couple of new toolholder options designed to help users automate and improve edge-finishing operations.

The five-axis milling process continues to expand and evolve as machine tools and tooling become more capable.

A shop battling taper in ID grinding, especially when the hole is deep, turns to the Grinding Doc. It’s as if the wheel is just riding over the workpiece.

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Machining aerospace-grade aluminum alloys is manageable when using the proper tools and techniques.

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Deep milling, whether it is in pockets or slots, can be a task that quickly ages even some of the most skilled machinists.

Commodity machine tools not up to the market’s need for process capability.

Reaming is a sizing and finishing operation performed on a pre-existing hole using a rotating cutting tool called a reamer that is fed into the hole to slightly enlarge and improve its geometric accuracy and surface f...

A run-of-the-mill toolholder won’t cut it when aggressively machining with a large diameter tool.