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Tour of Sunnen Emphasizes the Importance of Honing
A tour of Sunnen reinforces a long and fruitful one relationship with the company and emphasizes the importance of honing.
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Creative Workholding for the VMC Department
This article looks at a shop that has seen growth in its Swiss-type machining operations and uses a creative workholding solution on its VMC to achieve a more consistent workflow.
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Paul Horn Facility Showcases its Expertise
Paul Horn GmbH’s facility in Tübingen, Germany, is impressive not only because of its cleanliness, but the size of the campus and the company’s fast growth from year to year.
Read MoreAffordable Cleaning Tests
Formal lab analysis can be costly and time-consuming, but there are simple in-house measures you can take to screen your parts for contaminants.
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A Visit to Hydromat Provides a Glimpse of New Technology
A visit to Hydromat Inc.’s Oktoberfest event in St. Louis provided a glimpse of the new Eclipse 12-100, the company’s re-imagining of the rotary transfer machine.
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Mitutoyo America Donates Metrology Tools to Students
Mitutoyo America Corp. recently provided the Digimatic caliper and a micrometer to students pursuing degrees in the Engineering Technology Program at Northern Illinois University.
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Parts2clean Reveals Parts Cleaning Market Trends
A first visit to parts2clean in Stuttgart, Germany, is eye-opening to the importance of the parts cleaning market.
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Renishaw-Sponsored Team Finds Formula Student Success
The Cardiff Racing team, sponsored by Renishaw, was recently crowned the first ever UK winners of Formula Student.
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Automation Helps Improve Employee Productivity
Stark Industrial LLC’s first stand-alone robot works within a new turning machine cell that is currently dedicated to the simple machining operation of processing a cast aerospace part that is proprietary and is the further step the shop needed to gain process control.
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Locked and Loaded for Further Growth in Firearms Production
Even with a strong and varied manufacturing background, it wasn’t until a few years ago that this father and son team found its way into the manufacture of weaponry components. Nonetheless, business is booming.
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When and When Not to Use Guide Bushings
In the article “Shop Opts for Choice in Swiss Machines,” a Lancaster, Ohio, shop has taken advantage of this choice. The shop’s staff discusses how the choice is made as to which parts it applies to the guide-bushed machine and which parts it runs “bushless.”
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Craftsman's Cribsheet No. 60: Decarburization and Your Precision Machine Shop
Most defects in steel workpieces encountered in precision machine shops are longitudinal in nature. While their presence alone is enough to concern us, for the purposes of corrective action, it becomes important to identify where in the process the longitudinal imperfection first occurred.
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