People & Companies

Videos • October 30, 2015

Okuma rounds up an Ohio machine shop

Check out this video report from Okuma to learn more about how the Ohio shop now is speeding up production by bringing in new Okuma machines.

News • October 17, 2015

AMT hires new chief financial officer

AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology has a new chief financial officer, Rebecca Stahl, overseeing accounting and human resources. Prior to joining AMT, Stahl served as the chief financial officer at Lightbridge Communications Corp., a multinational wireless engineering company with a presence in more than 80 countries. Stahl recently earned the Private Company Chief Financial Officer of the Year award from the Northern Virginia Technology Council in 2015 for her work at Lightbridge.

Videos • October 15, 2015

Automated mold making

Build-A-Mold credits Makino automated machining technologies with helping the custom mold shop to increase quality and profitability.

News • October 6, 2015

OMAX names new marketing VP

The OMAX® Corp., Kent, Wash., recently welcomed Stephen Bruner to its senior management team as vice president of marketing. Bruner will oversee the company's marketing, technical training and inside sales teams and work closely with staff on program planning, brand development and lead generation and nurturing.

Articles • October 1, 2015 • Christopher Tate

Lean drives modularity

Cutting Tool Engineering's Shop Technology column in October addresses how lean manufacturing principles have changed the way engineers program machine tools and select tooling.

News • September 30, 2015

Cline Tool opens 3 locations in 2015

Cline Tool, one of the largest Sandvik distributors and custom tool manufacturers, has announced the expansion into a third new market since the end of last year, and has hired industry veteran Tony Cornelius as regional sales manager for its Illinois territory.

News • September 28, 2015

Midwest Industrial Tool Grinding wins 2015 Minn. Image Award

Midwest Industrial Tool Grinding Inc., Hutchinson, Minn., recently received the Image Award in the Minnesota Business Magazine2015 Manufacturing Awards. A two-time recipient, MITGI was recognized for work done to enhance the industry's image and the appeal of careers in manufacturing, according to a company news release.

Articles • September 1, 2015 • Keith Jennings

Free benefits come with a price

You never know when a simple comment will have a significant impact; sometimes that's not even the source's intention.

Articles • September 1, 2015 • Alan Richter

Books are fun-damental

Time for a literature review.

News • August 18, 2015

Flow releases new whitepaper

Flow International Corp., Kent, Wash., a developer and manufacturer of industrial waterjet machines for cutting applications, released an analysis on how ultrahigh-pressure pumps drive cutting efficiency through waterjet velocity.

News • August 13, 2015

Fastenal industrial vending machines reach milestone

Earlier this summer Fastenal installed an additional FAST Solutions industrial vending machine within the Terex Mixer manufacturing plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Given how many vending devices (machines and lockers) Fastenal installs during a typical business day, it was a commonplace event — except in one regard: that particular machine represented the 50,000th FAST Solutions device concurrently installed at Fastenal customer sites worldwide.

News • August 6, 2015

MTConnect announces student challenge

College students with an interest in bringing together software and hardware solutions to improve manufacturing operations now have an opportunity to leverage their creativity through the MTConnect Student Challenge, a competition that invites submissions for both ideas and applications utilizing the MTConnect standard.