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When a Magazine Editor Visits Your Shop

Here’s a brief overview of what to expect and how to prepare for a visit to your machine shop from a member of the media such as myself.

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Waking Up to a World Without Manufacturing

The world now knows what those of us in the manufacturing sector have known all along: the incredible importance of U.S. manufacturing to the overall economy. 

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Production Machining’s July 2022 News Highlights

Production Machining’s July 2022 news highlights include registration for the industry’s parts cleaning conference, reshoring information, mergers, promotions, additive manufacturing and more.

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Motivated Leader Helps Others Improve Tech Skillsets

Emerging Leader Joel Antipuna Jr. worked his way up at Rosenberger North America with his hunger for more responsibility and his aptitude to comprehend the technical and leadership aspects of his job.

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Swiss-Types

Swiss-Type Turning Point

This northern Ohio shop recently added its first Swiss-type lathe to gain long stretches of unattended machining largely because its continuous efforts to find new operators for its more conventional equipment had proven to be unfruitful.

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Medical

Establishing an Effective Production Process for Femoral Balls

Grinding, honing and buffing can be performed on one machine to eliminate the need for these medical implant components to run across multiple pieces of equipment.  

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VIDEO: Emerging Leaders’ Viewpoints on Training and Retention

The 2022 Emerging Leaders focus on new strategies for hiring, in-house training programs and retention plans for the young generation of workers as well as the valuable employees already in place.

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Basics

Understanding CMMC Compliance

The U.S. Department of Defense will soon make the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification a requirement for any defense contractor that currently is or hopes to work with the DOD.

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PMPA

Craftsman Cribsheet #107: Quick Cross-Reference for Foreign Designations for Stainless Steels

This table provides a quick reference for some of the most common stainless steel grades — showing Chinese, Japanese and European/German Werkstoffe numbers and grade designations.

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Targeting Spindle Alignment for High Machining Accuracy

This 5-axis laser target for spindle and axis alignment offers a fast and highly accurate way to measure spindle alignment, axis straightness and squareness on lathes, multitasking machines, machining centers and ID/OD grinding machines.

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Registration Now Open for 2022 Parts Cleaning Conference

The one-day conference, co-located with IMTS this year, enables attendees to not only learn all things parts cleaning but also to immerse themselves in everything IMTS has to offer.

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Basics

6 Considerations for Metalworking Fluid Selection and Maintenance

Understanding how to select and maintain metalworking fluids is critical to a machine shop’s efficiency.

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