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Made in the USA
Mark Mohr, the recently appointed president of DMG/Mori Seiki USA, provided Production Machining with some thoughtful answers to questions about his role with the company and the new North American manufacturing plant scheduled to open in the fall of 2012.Production Machining: What is your background that led to your position as president of DMG/Mori Seiki USA?Mark Mohr: After 15 years of prior experience in the machine tool business, I joined Mori Seiki in 2002 as sales manager in the Chicago Technical Center.
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Indicators, Looking Windshield or Rearview Mirror
In recent months, we have seen wild swings in equity markets—government deals that fail to meaningfully address the fundamental problems of runaway spending, downgrade of federal debt and global debt crises.
Read MoreNeed Skilled Workers? Just Whistle!
When all is said and done, manufacturing is pretty much on its own to solve the problems facing the training and retaining of properly skilled workers.
Read MoreInternal Thread Whirling
Parts such as ballscrew nuts not only require external thread whirling, but intricate internal threading as well.
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Attain Consistent Roundness and Concentricity Readings
The CNC Swiss-type lathe is finding an increasingly large market as non-traditional Swiss shops find its production advantages for small, precise and complex workpieces.
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Manufacturer Stays True to 106-Year-Old Niche
Finding a niche and sticking to it sounds like common sense. Sometimes, however, companies get distracted, even bored, with a niche. That’s never been a problem for the Fischer family.
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Cutting Tool Coating Production
This article looks at the coating methods available for carbide cutting tools.
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Segue into Swiss Machining a Positive Experience
I thank all of you who gave Mastercam a warm reception at PMTS 2011 where we “soft” launched our new CAD/CAM software package, Swiss Expert.
Read MoreHeat Treating Involves Several Material Changes
Heat treating involves changing the properties of metals that have different crystal structures at high and low temperatures.
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Multidiscipline CAM Helps Shop Respond Quickly to Customer Needs
Simplifying the machining process makes a shop more productive, and no shop knows this better than Carbide Products Inc. (Georgetown, Ky.). This job shop has reduced programming time and virtually eliminated programming errors by switching to Esprit software from DP Technology.
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