Lori Beckman

Lori Beckman Executive Editor

Top Business Award Goes To …

This company was recently named a 2013 Top 10 Business of the Year.

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Wellness Program Takes Healthy Leap

When companies provide a healthy environment for their employees, it is a win/win for all involved.

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The Importance of Thread Whirling in the Medical Field

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.

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Cutting Tools

Thread Whirling in the Medical Field

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.

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Diamond Tool Enables Company to Overcome Production Stop

Sometimes the most experienced technicians or skilled toolmakers need to look to outside specialists when it comes to solving critical service problems. 

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NIMS Offers Workshops for Training

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.

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Timely Win for Manufacturer

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.

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Are Libraries Reinventing Themselves?

Is the role of libraries in a traditional sense (a place to find literature or reference materials) slowly changing?

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Cutting Tools

Cryogenic Treatment Effective, Yet Mysterious

Although it’s not scientifically proven, the process is effective and relatively simple.

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Toolholders

A Toolholder Maintenance Guide for the Inexperienced and Veterans Alike

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.

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Turning Machines

Consolidating CAM Software Cuts Programming Time

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. 

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Social Media Benefits Small Business

 You might be under the assumption that your company is too small to reap the benefits of using social media.

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