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A Shop Snapshot(s) in Time
Shamrock Precision has made significant strides to diversify its customer base and implement various process improvements, applying a crawl, walk, run approach to adding new technology such as ERP and automation.
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What’s Still Cam-Driven and Why?
Combining select cam-driven functions with CNC technology for this multi-spindle platform is said to help reduce machine cost while retaining high machining speed, precision and production.
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Let’s Go to the Tech Brief Video
Machining “Tech Brief” topics in print can also be presented via video. Here are a few examples.
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FAQs about PVD Coatings
Applying a PVD coating to cutting tools as well as medical devices can offer functional advantages for both applications.
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Making Tribological Improvements to Bore Surfaces
A new “mechano-chemical” process that impregnates tungsten into the surface of honed bores at a nano level improves wear resistance while reducing friction between mating components.
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PM’s Top 10 Online Articles of 2021
Last year, our magazine introduced readers to a range of technology and practices that precision CNC machine shops are applying or should consider applying. Here are the ones that got the most online eyeballs.
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Choose Your Favorite PM Cover Shot: Win Some PM Swag
Production Machining magazine had some interesting — possibly atypical — cover imagery last year. Chime in to let us know which one was your favorite for a chance to win some free PM gear.
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What Would You Notice in Someone Else’s Shop?
If you’re an owner or manager of a CNC machine shop, do you get to visit other shops often? And, if so, what do you keep an eye out for?
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Filling the Tall Order of Inventory Management
Rable Machine continues to refine the inventory management services the shop offers its top customers. It has found that providing these services — something other shops can’t or won’t do — makes it more of a partner with those customers, rather just a vendor.
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Video Tech Brief: Dual Thread Whirling on a Swiss-Type CNC Lathe
The dual thread whirling units on Tsugami Swiss-type lathes can produce medical bone screws with two different thread leads in one setup, eliminating the need for single-point threading.
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Is 3D Printing in Your Shop or on Your Radar?
Recent shop visits reveal that some machining businesses have added/are considering adding 3D printing equipment, while others are content sending that work — for items such as polymer fixtures and jigs — to outside vendors.
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Video Tech Brief: 3D Optical Part Measurement Explained
Oasis Inspection Systems added a rotary stage to its optical measuring units enabling them to perform automated 3D measurement of machined part features.
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