General Shop Equipment & Supplies

You might think laser pulse lengths measured in nanoseconds—that is, billionths of a second—are short. But they're long compared to those of picosecond (a trillionth of a second) and femtosecond (a quadrillionth of a second) lasers, which are known as ultrashort-pulse lasers. Once confined mainly to laboratories and medical facilities, USPLs have become increasingly popular machining options over the last decade, thanks to lower prices and more-rugged designs intended for industrial settings.

Our supplier in Asia is grinding hardened-steel parts and sending them to us for final processing. Some of them are cracking, so we're going to visit the supplier. What should we be looking for?

This summer has been hectic, both professionally and personally. The business side has been a roller coaster, requiring intense management. Personally, I had the pleasure of seeing my third of four kids graduate from high school and begin developing an interest in our family business.

With a high-precision machining center placed in the Institute for Machine Tools and Production Processes, researchers are entering into a new dimension in micromanufacturing.

With demand for machine tools still weak in China and a drop-off in Japan, capital investment is losing momentum worldwide, according to a Nikkei Asian Review report.

As involving as IMTS is, you're bound to have some free time while in Chicago, which you can spend either appreciating the city's archiitecture or finding the nearest place to order a delicious deep-dish pizza or other culinary treat

More than 2,000 companies will be exhibiting manufacturing solutions at IMTS 2016.

Multiple-axis machining offers many benefits to parts manufacturers that can correctly harness and implement the capabilities of this technology. Ultimately, it is an effective step towards factory automation, offering the opportunity to condense multiple machine operations into one, saving takt time, total production time, production cost and improving tolerances.

A 57-year-old maintenance worker was crushed fatally by a 4,000 pound machine part while performing maintenance inside of a sand core machine at a Warrensburg, Mont. aluminum foundry.