Articles
Waking Up to a World Without Manufacturing
The world now knows what those of us in the manufacturing sector have known all along: the incredible importance of U.S. manufacturing to the overall economy.
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Production Machining’s July 2022 News Highlights
Production Machining’s July 2022 news highlights include registration for the industry’s parts cleaning conference, reshoring information, mergers, promotions, additive manufacturing and more.
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Motivated Leader Helps Others Improve Tech Skillsets
Emerging Leader Joel Antipuna Jr. worked his way up at Rosenberger North America with his hunger for more responsibility and his aptitude to comprehend the technical and leadership aspects of his job.
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Swiss-Type Turning Point
This northern Ohio shop recently added its first Swiss-type lathe to gain long stretches of unattended machining largely because its continuous efforts to find new operators for its more conventional equipment had proven to be unfruitful.
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Establishing an Effective Production Process for Femoral Balls
Grinding, honing and buffing can be performed on one machine to eliminate the need for these medical implant components to run across multiple pieces of equipment.
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VIDEO: Emerging Leaders’ Viewpoints on Training and Retention
The 2022 Emerging Leaders focus on new strategies for hiring, in-house training programs and retention plans for the young generation of workers as well as the valuable employees already in place.
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Understanding CMMC Compliance
The U.S. Department of Defense will soon make the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification a requirement for any defense contractor that currently is or hopes to work with the DOD.
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Craftsman Cribsheet #107: Quick Cross-Reference for Foreign Designations for Stainless Steels
This table provides a quick reference for some of the most common stainless steel grades — showing Chinese, Japanese and European/German Werkstoffe numbers and grade designations.
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Targeting Spindle Alignment for High Machining Accuracy
This 5-axis laser target for spindle and axis alignment offers a fast and highly accurate way to measure spindle alignment, axis straightness and squareness on lathes, multitasking machines, machining centers and ID/OD grinding machines.
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Registration Now Open for 2022 Parts Cleaning Conference
The one-day conference, co-located with IMTS this year, enables attendees to not only learn all things parts cleaning but also to immerse themselves in everything IMTS has to offer.
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6 Considerations for Metalworking Fluid Selection and Maintenance
Understanding how to select and maintain metalworking fluids is critical to a machine shop’s efficiency.
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PMPA’s Award-Winning Mastery Program
PMPA’s Mastery Program wins ASAE 2022 Gold Circle Award for Excellence in the New Product/Service Launch category. But the real reward was realized on the tours.
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