Metalworking Index Rebounds in May but Short of Expansion
Activity picked up again after April’s stall reflecting tariff policy’s impact on manufacturing.
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Process Consolidation Meets Usability Improvements: Inside DMG MORI Innovation Days 2025
One of the greatest roadblocks in adopting powerful machines is finding the people to run them. Find out how DMG MORI plans to bypass this obstacle, with examples from its recent Innovation Days event.
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Choosing the Right Drill Type
Specifying the right option for your application can save time and tools.
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Resolving Four Unexpected Challenges of Mobile Robots
An automated guided vehicle (AGV) with a robotic arm on top enables medical manufacturer RMS to tend as many as eight machine tools at once. But the shop first had to deal with a few unforeseen snags in its implementation.
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Setting Up a Small Shop for Big Growth
Metal Trade Solutions is laying a foundation to grow by determining standard tools and workholding, and fully implementing technology.
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- What Technology, Process or Strategy Made the Biggest Impact on Your Machine Shop?
- To Understand Machine Speeds, Look Past the Spec Sheet
- Common Methods for Measuring Workpiece Radii
- The Shift Toward Smarter Shops: Real-World Stories of Data-Driven Manufacturing
- 3 Strategies for Effective CNC Programming Standardization
- Surface Finish Underfoot
- Can U.S. Manufacturing Beat Trade Volatility? Lessons from Tormach's Global Strategy
- Tips for Ensuring the Performance of a Surface Finish Measuring System
- 3 Machine Options to Aid Automation
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The Smarter Way to Take Full Control of Your CNC Machine Shop
Designed to bridge the gap between CAM programmers and shop floor operators, SolidShop provides a seamless, real-time solution for managing G-code, tracking production and eliminating costly mistakes.
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Automation is for Everyone
Not just for large shops, automation can help even the smallest shops solve labor challenges and become more profitable and efficient.
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How I Made It: Aneesa Muthana
Aneesa Muthana grew up helping out at her parents’ Chicago grinding shop before striking out on her own in the ‘90s. When business slowed down dramatically, she embraced change and built her machine shop into a modern facility using Swiss-type CNC machines.__PRESENT
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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 6: Why, and How, Hardinge is Reshoring Machine Tool Production
In this episode of Made in the USA, several executives and senior staff at Hardinge give their first-person account of how they formulated the plan to shift the manufacturing of its milling and turning product lines from its Taiwan plant to its plant in Elmira, New York, the major challenges they encountered and the rewards that made it worth the effort.
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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 4: A Measured Approach
The L.S. Starrett Co. has been manufacturing precision measurement tools in Athol, Massachusetts, since 1880. Attention to U.S. manufacturing often focuses on reshoring manufacturing from other countries, but Starrett never left. The facility in Athol employs hundreds and produces thousands of tools that remain vital for measurement in machining and other fields.
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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 3: The Robots Come Home
The latest episode “Made in the USA” podcast explores a company that uses collaborative robots, one of the key tools helping US machine shops and other manufacturers compete with lower cost countries by automating production.
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Star Cutter Drill Lineup Provides Smooth Cutting Operations
The line of internal coolant drills is well suited for applications in all fields where stainless steel is used, such as watchmaking, medical, aerospace, automotive and so on.
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Servo Products Co. Power Feed Provides Efficient, Reliable Performance
The Servo Type 350X power feed can produce a minimum of 350 inch/pounds of continuous torque as low as 0.3 inches/minute feed rate.
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Walter Surface Technologies' Sanding Discs Enhance Cutting Efficiency
XtraCut XX sanding discs feature triangular-shaped ceramic grains to maximize pressure at each contact point.
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L.S. Starrett Gage Features Rugged Construction
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Sandvik Coromant Parting, Grooving Geometry Increases Chip Control
Sandvik Coromant’s CoroCut 1-2 concept is designed for high performance and security across a variety of applications.
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AMT Launches Aftermarket Coloring Capsules, Blasting Media Compatible with DyeMansion Systems
High-performance, cost-effective consumables designed for compatibility with DyeMansion DM60.
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