General Shop Equipment & Supplies

Extend tool life when machining titanium vertebrae implants and supports. A shrink-fit collet and collet chuck system.

Reduce downtime on three aging horizontal machining centers. Replace them with two new HMCs.

This month's Manager's Desk column suggests that good managers are able to shift gears and take maximum advantage of all business cycles, up or down.

Machinist's Corner columnist Michael Deren recounts how he responded when upper management issued a directive to increase throughput.

Two basic strategies exist to minimize the Abbé error in machine tools: eliminate the causes or compensate the result, according to the Machine Technology column in the July 2013 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

A second Look Ahead item features a micromachine that performs up to seven machining operations.

The national conversation about the "skills gap" and its role in manufacturing continues to simmer, writes Alan Rooks of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, in his Lead Angle column for the July 2013 issue.

A Chicago broaching shop remembers its past to invigorate its future.r

Four deburring methods for mass finishing microparts.

Siemens OP 019 is a new CNC operator panel with advanced technology, enabling seamless design integration to the Sinumerik Operate graphical user interface and Sinumerik 840D sl CNC for use on high-end milling, turning, grinding, laser-cutting and other machine tools.

Amacoil/Uhing has introduced a new option for Uhing RG linear drives which enables extremely fine adjustment to the linear pitch of the drive unit.

With the development of the LiFLEX modular system in the middle of the last decade, Licon mt was able to manufacture machines to individual customer needs.