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The Value of CMM Controller Retrofits
In this case, new controllers for two coordinate measuring machines — one 26 years old — with new programming software offers the possibility to enable multisensor inspection of critical, turned aerospace components.
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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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Job Shop Discovers and Fills a Fishing Need
The promise of a product line for improved mounting of electronic fish finders led this Missouri job shop to an automated turning process.
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Broaching Tool Technology For Lathes Used to Slot Inconel Parts
This shop finds value in using an indexable-insert-style broaching tool to create blind-hole slots in heat-treated Inconel aerospace parts on a CNC lathe.
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How Well do You Know Granite Surface Plates?
Here are some tips for choosing, maintaining and customizing a granite solution that will best meet your shop’s particular inspection needs.
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AI and Your QMS Procedures
Will artificial intelligence soon impact your quality system operating procedures? It could.
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Production Machining's Most-Viewed February Articles
February presented a wide range of captivating topics for the Production Machining audience. Take a look at our top 10 most-viewed articles from February based on Google Analytics.
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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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Consider This Another CMMC Reminder
Machine shops serving the military/defense industry that currently aren’t working toward achieving Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification could be caught flat-footed once it’s required.
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Tool Path Improves Chip Management for Swiss-Type Lathes
This simple change to a Swiss-type turning machine’s tool path can dramatically improve its ability to manage chips.
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Manufacturing Madness: Know When to Speed Up and When to Slow Down
Knowing which to do when can make the difference between world-class leadership and average management.
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Opening Up to Possibilities
As a business leader, are you wasting time defining barriers when you should be defining the possibilities instead?
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