PM Blog

An Employer's Back to School List

I remember the excitement of back to school when I was a child—new clothes, new shoes, maybe a new notebook and new school supplies.

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Cutting Tools

Plateau Honing Improves Finish and Lubrication Control

Plateau honing is a process that improves cylinder wall surface finish by removing tiny peaks of torn or folded material and increasing bearing area.

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Turning Machines

Software Simplifies Turn-Mill Operations

An international player in the highly competitive aeronautics, automotive, defense and optical industries makes the most of software for multitasking program verification and optimization.

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Turn-Mills

The Upside of Vertical Turning

Vertical turning centers that use the main spindle to load and unload themselves are finding increasing acceptance as multitasking capabilities make them efficient processing centers for producing chucked parts.

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Swiss-Types

Barfeeding Small Diameters

This shop may be located off the beaten path but it’s certainly found a successful and profitable home by applying top of the line technology to its medical part production mix.

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Working Smarter

In today’s intensely competitive manufacturing environment we all strive to improve productivity and profitability.

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Turning Machines

The Benefits of a B Axis

We know about the basic XYZ axes on a machine, but what about another axis called a B axis?

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People Make the Difference

At our core we humans are social creatures.

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Machine Tool Shopping at Your Shop

June E-Newsletter

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Measurement

Electronic Dial Bore Gage

It’s another one of those “necessary evils” that shopfloor employees often don’t appreciate the significance of.

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Double Production with 2 Slides

Simplifying operations commonly provides more consistent results in a job by reducing error.

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Clippard Instrument Laboratory Inc.

In 1941, William Leonard Clippard, Jr. founded a company that sold electrical test equipment, magnetic windings and radio frequency coils.

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Techspex
Marubeni Citizen CNC
World Machine Tool Survey
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SPC Innovations, In-machine gaging and attachments
Horn USA
Star swiss-type automatic lathes
Marubeni Citizen CNC