Chris Koepfer

Chris Koepfer Editor Emeritus

Where Are You on Taniguchi’s Chart?

Last year, on the occasion of Mori Seiki’s 60th anniversary, Dr. Masahiko Mori commissioned a book that speaks to the importance of machine tool technology to the quality of life in our world today.

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Use Us as a Resource

More and more shops are looking to do more for the precious customers they have, and this sometimes involves moving the business out of its comfort zone.

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Workholding

Bar Feeders Provide New Paths to Productivity

 The lastest advances in bar feeding can help you prepare for the coming manufacturing resurgence.  

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Looking Forward

E-Newsletter 

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A One Stop Shop

 Combining flexible manufacturing with volume production capability helps this shop cover all the bases.

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Why Not Ask Why?

In manufacturing today, the word “why” may be the single most powerful weapon to weather the current recession.

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Keeper of the Flame

Have you ever wondered where the metalworking technology you use daily came from? After all, somebody had to invent the machines and tools from which our machines and tools evolved.

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Who Will Make the Nails?

 It’s May and our economy is searching for a bottom thanks to malfeasance, mismanagement, greed and stupidity of people disconnected from the basic wealth production mechanisms.

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Micromachining

Micro-Drilling: 9 Questions to Answer Before Beginning

Applications for micromachining continue to grow. Successful machining with small tools calls for a different set of process skills on the shop floor.

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It's a Small World

Videos, articles and expert access all address the challenges of machining tiny parts and features...Introducing the micromachining zone.

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Reinventing The Multi-Spindle's Spindle Drive

Applying CNC to a multi-spindle machine must deal with the problem of independently powering each of the main spindles. A machine, new to the North American market, overcomes this problem with a unique approach.

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Exceed Expectations

We should all try to exceed our customers' expectations, especially in the current economic climate.

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SolidCAM
manufacturer of machine tools
Star swiss-type automatic lathes
World Machine Tool Survey
Techspex
SPC Innovations, In-machine gaging and attachments
Kyocera
Marubeni Citizen CNC
Length and Diameter Gages, Broken tool Detectors