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Benchmarking: An Invaluable Business Tool
91ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ÎÛ’s Top Shops program shows shops their strengths and opportunities for improvement, and provides recognition for high-performing businesses.
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Calling Home on a Portable Surface Gage
Today’s surface gages have a user interface that is just like a smartphone, and setting them up to make measurement requirements should be easy for the operator.
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An American Manufacturing Story
For manufacturers that choose to move or keep production in the United States, what are the challenges and opportunities that motivate them?
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Robots: Doing More With Less Floorspace
Robotic automation continues to grow more accessible to smaller manufacturers, as the floorspace necessary for these robots shrinks and their uses expand.
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Metalworking Activity Contraction Slows Slightly in January
Most components held steady in January, but new orders and exports showed ever-so-slight slowing of contraction.
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Integration, Automation and Green Tech Highlight JIMTOF 2022
Known as one of the largest machine tool trade shows in the world, the Japan International Machine Tool Fair (JIMTOF) has a reputation for being a machining technology show more than a machine tool sales event. And this year’s show in Tokyo — the first in-person Japanese machine tool trade show in four years — did not disappoint.
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Considerations for Properly Implementing Advanced Tool Materials
Many shops incorrectly assume advanced tools are plug and play. The tools may fit into existing tool holders, or even into the same shell mill pockets or turning pocket as carbide inserts, but that’s where the similarities end.
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Can Connecting ERP to Machine Tool Monitoring Address the Workforce Challenge?
It can if RFID tags are added. Here is how this startup sees a local Internet of Things aiding CNC machine shops.
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A Fond Farewell to My Additive Friends
In his final “Additive Insights” column, Tim Simpson reflects on how additive manufacturing has progressed in the last six years. Standards and software are two examples.
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Managing Coolant with Skimmers, Refractometers and More
Bacteria-infected coolant harms machines and sickens machinists. Coolant management technologies like skimmers and automated systems counter this tendency.
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Manufacturing Madness: Colleges Vie for Machining Title (Includes Video)
The first annual SEC Machining Competition highlighted students studying for careers in machining, as well as the need to rebuild a domestic manufacturing workforce.
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Dielectric Oil Dramatically Reduces EDM Maintenance
Plagued by repeated small fires that interrupted its wire EDM throughput, this cutting tool manufacturer changed its dielectric oil and both eliminated fires and reduced its oil consumption.
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