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New Thinking from the New Generation for the New Year

“We have to learn to think in a new way.” –Albert Einstein

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Production Machining's January 2024 News Highlights

Production Machining’s January 2024 news highlights include new leadership, acquisitions, reshoring updates and more.

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The Value of Aligning Efforts to Promote Manufacturing Careers

Successfully building the next generation of manufacturers requires a team effort between employers, educators and parents. Each of these three groups has a tremendous impact on young people’s career decisions. Without the support of all three, we are unlikely to bridge the skilled labor shortage that threatens the future growth of our industry.

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Gardner Business Index: Precision Machining December 2023

While still contracting, Precision Machining activity in December showed its first real uptick since August 2023.

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Workholding

Bar Feeder Designed with Swiss-Types in Mind

New technology enables this bar feeder to fully support the bar pusher and stock from inside the unit all the way to the spindle of a sliding headstock lathe.

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Basics

Important Machining Factors of Carbon Steels

Learn the factors that contribute to carbon steels and their machinability as well as the 1214 steels, 1215 steels and 1018 steels, other grades, and more.  

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Grinding

Should You Bring Tool Regrinding In-House?

In some situations, the potentially high investment in an in-house tool grinding process can be justified with a relatively fast ROI. (Includes video.)

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Tooling

German Project Yields Three New Medical Machining Processes

Recent research has resulted in a new mix of high-speed turn whirl milling, polygon turning and rotational turning for manufacturing medical bone screws and out-of-round nails.

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Career Transitions, Loyalty and Major League Baseball

Never bite the hand that feeds you.

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Measurement

Addressing Machining’s Necessary Evil

Many view quality control as such, but integrating new measurement technologies and approaches can ultimately minimize QC’s impact on throughput and a company’s bottom line.

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PM’s Top 10 Articles of 2023

This batch of Production Machining articles that got the most clicks in 2023 cover a range of topics, technology and new ideas.

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CNC Rotary Transfer Machine Features Ballscrew Electromechanical Tooling Units

A CNC rotary transfer machine, a newly developed machine platform, is said to offer high rigidity, flexibility and accuracy for a range of high-volume, precision-machining applications.

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Techspex
Efficient, Durability, Advanced CBN Abrasives
World Machine Tool Survey
Horn USA
manufacturer of machine tools
Kyocera
Star swiss-type automatic lathes
Marubeni Citizen CNC
World Machine Tool Survey