After working in this industry for even a short time, you are in tune with all the things around you that have been created on a metalworking machine tool and realize how extensive the list is. Almost everything made in a factory contains at least one part that was manufactured on a machine tool.
After working in this industry for even a short time, you are in tune with all the things around you that have been created on a metalworking machine tool and realize how extensive the list is.
Sometimes the most experienced technicians or skilled toolmakers need to look to outside specialists when it comes to solving critical service problems.
To help with training's ongoing process, NIMS is now offering a Professional Development Series: a collection of workshops designed to improve or maintain excellence in metalworking training.
When Carl Reiser, the fabrication and maintenance supervisor at Highlight Industries (Wyoming, Mich.), discovered that he won a Hurco TM6 lathe at IMTS 2012 for his company, he was surprised; not only was it his first time to win anything, but he was one of more than 1,400 owners or employees of manufacturing companies who entered the sweepstakes.
Tooling supplier Techniks offers a “Machinist’s Guide to Toolholder Maintenance,” a 5-page overview of some of the most important aspects of keeping collet-and-nut-style toolholders in top condition.
At Trillium Machine Inc., there’s no room for thinking within the comfy confines of “the box,” working in the “comfort zone,” or refusing to try the untried.