General Shop Equipment & Supplies

Shop Operations columnist Tom Lipton offers some suggestions for improving the design of manual milling machines in the October 2012 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

In his October 2012 Machine Technology column, Dr. Scott Smith, professor at the William States Lee College of Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, outlines the reasons stable milling zones appear the way they do.

How many times does a project break down just from trying achieve perfection? Machinist's Corner columnist Michael Deren urges readers not to let perfect trump better.

Manager's Desk columnist Keith Jennings discusses the balance between face time with employees and time management.

Wire EDM depends on more than machine settings alone. This guide reviews the setup, maintenance, and process controls that most affect wire-EDM performance.

FACC, an Austrian-based Tier 1 aerospace supplier, has acquired a CHARGER small flat tape layer from MAG for layup of primary and secondary structural composite components.

Ganro Industrial Corp., formally known as Golden Sun Industrial, has introduced their new DR Series model of rotary tables and indexers and are available from CNC Indexing & Feeding Technologies.

New developments in the 2013 release from Vero Software of the sheet metal CAD/CAM software Radan reportedly provide considerably improved support for multi-tools, meaning they are much easier to use.

Free from Sandvik Coromant, the new Drilling App for iPhones is designed to offer a quick and easy way for machine shops to calculate cycle times and costs for all drilling and tapping operations.

Kurt Manufacturing Co.'s D688 vise has an 8.8-inch jaw opening and repeatability to within 0.001 inch.

The newest version of VERICUT software is available globally from CGTech.

Mahr Federal has introduced a new Android App that lets users measure common surface roughness parameters using their Smartphones and other Android operating system devices.