General Shop Equipment & Supplies

Shop Operations column from February 2011 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine discusses the importance of comfortable workbenches and worktables.

Grinding Doc column from the February 2011 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine explains the 10 percent grinding rule and offers other grinding advice.

Manager's Desk column from the February 2011 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine takes a look at various considerations when examining equipment acquisitions.

Strategies for grinding HVOF-coated aerospace parts.

Part Time column for February 2011 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering looks at a shop that machines tungsten-carbide wedding, engagement and personal rings.

ATI Stellram and Sandvik Coromant offer demonstrations of their milling cutters as part of this aerospace report.

A complement to our Part Time column, this brief video offers an overview of Tungsten Pride's ring production capabilities.

Faced with two machines exactly the same, except that one has a newer spindle, a grinding shop wants to know if there's a way to determine if the newer spindle is stiffer than the older one on the other machine. Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series, analyzes the situation in the 16th episode of the video series.

ZPS America LLC announces its newest cam-driven 8-spindle automatic lathe with 32 or 42mm bar capacity.

CGTech is now shipping the next major version of VERICUT CNC machine simulation and optimization software.

CAD/CAM can be challenging to learn, and even more challenging to teach. Mastercam QuickPart from CNC Software Inc. gives students a fast, easy way to design and cut parts while learning the principles of CAD/CAM, and having fun doing it.

Geometric Technologies Inc. has announced the release of CAMWorks 2011, the latest version of its solid-based CNC programming solution.