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Data-Driven Manufacturing 16 Feb 2021

Data Enables Machines to Tell Their Own Stories

These examples reveal how a data collection system has minimized machine tool downtime and costs while simultaneously offering valuable insights into a shop’s processes.

Cutting Tools 6 May 2020

Bringing a Broaching Tool Manufacturer into the 21st Century

This broaching tool manufacturer had been making its products the same way since 1945, but a new owner updated everything, from the equipment to the culture and the way it does business.

Parts Cleaning 5 May 2020

Part Cleanliness is Second Nature

While the general public has ramped up its concern about cleanliness, I can’t help but think about shops that have parts cleaning operations that are always concerned about cleaning.

4 May 2020

Will This CNC Machining Magazine Editor Choose Comfort or Change?

That’s the question I asked myself when presented with the opportunity to become this magazine’s next editor in chief. I chose change.

Swiss-Types 1 May 2020

Swiss Shop Turns Precision into Profit

The quality demands for micro-machined parts are swiftly increasing. Shops must be ready and willing to adjust their machining strategies to fit the need.

30 Apr 2020

Machine Tool Search Made Easy

Find out what turning equipment is available in the market by using TechSpex machine tools search engine.

29 Apr 2020

Foster Teams that Support Psychological Safety

The behaviors that create psychological safety — conversational turn-taking and empathy — are part of the same unwritten rules we often turn to, as individuals, when we need to establish a bond.

Turning Machines 28 Apr 2020

3D Printing’s Value in a Production Turning Environment

A shop had a problem with chips and coolant being shot back through tube material it was machining on a bar-fed CNC turning center. Its solution was to 3D-print a plug to insert into the back end of the tubes. It uses its 3D printer in other ways, too.