April 2024 Issue
April 2024
Digital Edition
Features
Featured articles from the April 2024 issue of Production Machining
My Journey to an Accidental Career that Became My Passion
“Machining was not the career I chose; it chose me.”
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Piezoelectric Sensor Technology: Moving Toward more Efficient Machine Monitoring
A new system that uses simple and compact force or strain sensors, which can be integrated inside toolholders or mounted on surfaces such as spindle housings, can facilitate CNC machine monitoring.
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Automated High-Production Welding of EV Rotor Shafts
This cell is able to perform joining, preheating and welding operations for rotor shafts used in electric vehicles.
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Gardner Business Index: Precision Machining February 2024
Precision Machining activity contracted a little slower in February, resuming its path inching toward flat.
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Shop and School Symbiosis
PMPA member Clippard Instrument Laboratory has been working with Butler Tech for over 45 years and the benefits keep growing.
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A Tale About an Automation Solution Discovered in Production Machining
A CNC Swiss production supervisor took to LinkedIn to describe how he discovered a rotary parts collector in the pages of our publication and has since purchased and benefited from it.
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Craftsman Cribsheet No. 126: AISI System of Identification
Source: PMPA Prior to the Society of Automotive Engineers taking responsibility for Steel Grade nomenclature in the United States (1995), the American Iron and Steel Institute determined U.S. standard steel grades in collaboration with SAE.
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Standard Control Functions with Swiss-Types in Mind
Features in this line of machine-specific CNCs assist setups, offer synchronized movement commands and provide other standard, not optional, capabilities to streamline Swiss-type programming.
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Recognizing Signs of a Degrading Workplace Culture
Is your machine shop missing key “culture elements?” Here are ways to identify if your organization is heading in the right or wrong direction in terms of establishing a healthy company culture.
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When to Use a Diaphragm Chuck
The accuracy and repeatability of these chucks make them well suited for a number of workholding applications, including turning and grinding.
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