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Quality Builds Loyalty

To find out whether or not you’re meeting your customers' needs, consider asking them “The Ultimate Question” as a benchmark for strategic growth.

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Basics

How to Set Goals and Strategic Plans

Every company needs to invest time in these endeavors in order to improve performance.

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G Code Basics

Here are five program-related tasks every operator should know.

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One Week to Take Additive Manufacturing Further

A 5-day advanced course at the new Additive Manufacturing Competency Center is aimed at quickly advancing the knowledge and effectiveness of current AM users.

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Holemaking

A Really, Really Big Boring Bar

The developers are calling it the world’s largest anti-vibration boring bar—one that is capable of machining a bore 12 inches in diameter and as long as 165 inches. Sandvik Coromant designed and manufactured this boring bar in cooperation with lathe builder Gurutzpe Turning Solutions.

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Workholding

The Parakeep. An Adjustable Parallel Keeper

According to its manufacturer, it’s a device that effectively keeps workholding parallels in place while a vise is opened and closed.

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Parts Cleaning

Slideshow: Faster Cleaning & Deburring

Conveyor integration and other time-saving features are common amongst the products covered in this month’s slideshow.

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Fluid Recycling ROI

Not only will it save you money on new coolant costs, a fluid recycling system will improve employee health, workplace safety and foster environmental compliance.

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Grinding

New Hybrid Unites Additive Manufacturing and Grinding

A machine performing surface and profile grinding, along with milling and laser metal deposition, is believed to be the world’s first hybrid grinder.

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Video: New Customizable Consumer Car to Be Made by Additive Manufacturing

The sponsor of the upcoming Additive Manufacturing Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee, has revealed the electric car that it will produce in this city.

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Measurement

Metal Alloy Analysis Made Affordable

This handheld spectrometer for metal alloy identification features new X-ray technology and a price point that’s attractive to a wider range of manufacturers.

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Automation

RAMTEC Ramps up Academic Outreach

Technology instructors in the RAMTEC Ohio program are expanding credentialing courses available to program enrollees, helping address the state’s “manufacturing gap.”

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