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Power Generation: Machining Big, Heavy, Expensive Components
‘Everything is big, heavy and expensive’ for shops serving the energy industry. By Christopher Tate Each segment of manufacturing has unique characteristics. Automotive machining is characterized by high volume and low margins. Aerospace is highly regulated with tight tolerances. Medical machining is also highly regulated with difficult to machine alloys.
Cutting Tool Shipments Up 2% from January to February 2026
Shipments of cutting tools, measured by the Cutting Tool Market Report, a collaboration between AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology and the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute (USCTI), totaled $225.1 million in February 2026. Orders increased 2% from January 2026 and were up 12.8% from February 2025.
CERATIZIT cites U.S. tungsten stockpile plan as supply chain security milestone
A planned joint venture between Plansee U.S. Holding Corp. and Manhattan Five Partners LLC is intended to strengthen tungsten supply security in the United States, according to a May 19 statement from the CERATIZIT Group, a Plansee Group business area.
A Different Type of Arms Race
This month’s column is a primer on FlexArm, a product line of articulating cantilever arms from Flex Machine Tools, Wapakoneta, Ohio. The arms assist an operator in performing various manufacturing tasks. The company began manufacturing tapping arms in 1984, and over the years has expanded the product line to include arms for drilling, die and mold grinding, polishing, and for manipulating heavy workpieces — to name a few.
Material Matters: Reducing Carbide Use as Tungsten Prices Rise
As the cost of tungsten rapidly rises, cutting tool manufacturers focus on developing inserts that reduce carbide consumption while boosting productivity. By Alan Richter Like so many other commodities, the price of tungsten ammonium paratungstate (APT), which is used to make carbide cutting tools, has moved in only one direction: up — way up.
Train and Retain
Regardless of the industry being served, effective worker training is critical to a part manufacturer’s success. Horst Engineering’s core focus is producing aerospace and defense parts, but states that precision machined components are just as essential to many high technology industries, including power generation.
Using AI as a Competitive Differentiator
END USER LNS North America Inc. 513-528-5674 www.lnsgroup.com SOLUTION PROVIDER Rimon Technologies 872-335-4974 www.rimon.tech CHALLENGE Reduce the number of service calls handled by workers and transfer knowledge from experienced to inexperienced workers. SOLUTION An AI-powered chatbot and a video-based documentation system.
PRAB promotes testing programs for scrap processing, fluid recycling decisions
According to the company, testing metal chips, turnings, swarf, coolants and process fluids under application-specific conditions can provide empirical data to guide equipment selection, scrap value improvement, volume-handling capacity and projected return on investment. PRAB says this approach can help manufacturers address rising disposal costs and environmental requirements, and recover more value from waste streams.
GPT gearhead family
The GPT gearhead family from Faulhaber can be flexibly combined with various motors from the standard range, such as motors from the flat BXT brushless family or the brushless DC drives from the microdrive experts. During development, they were specifically designed to work with the DC drives of the GXR/SXR gearhead family, which allows for perfectly matched combinations of encoders, drives and gearheads.
Sunnen Products, TIBO Tiefbohrtechnik form alliance to expand deep hole machining
Sunnen Products Company, a supplier of precision honing and bore finishing technologies, and TIBO Tiefbohrtechnik GmbH, a specialist in deep hole drilling machines and systems, have entered into a strategic alliance to expand their global capabilities in deep hole machining solutions.
Reversible hard jaws for ID and OD workholding
Reversible hard jaws from Dillon Manufacturing are suitable for ID and OD workholding, so they can decrease the time and cost of tool set-ups, yet still accurately grip and locate work pieces. Designed to hold a specific range of part sizes, these jaws are usually used for first operation workholding.
Doosan Robotics unveils AI palletizing solution
Doosan Robotics new AI-powered palletizing solution, PalletizHD+, brings the robot, AI, and application controls together in one integrated environment to make palletizing faster, smarter, and easier for manufacturers to deploy and operate. The system, which debuted at Automate 2026, is built on PalletizOS, Doosan Robotics’ proprietary palletizing operating system and "removes the complexity traditionally associated with palletizing automation," according to the company.
