Articles

Investing in the Future

When the current workforce retires, who will be left to man the machines?

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What is Adiabatic Cutting?

If you’re cutting a healthy amount of workpiece blanks, then this atypical cutoff process might be the ticket.

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Extreme Cold is a Hot Technology

Despite its name, coolant often doesn’t provide much cooling. Here’s a different approach to enhancing tool life that involves dramatically cooling the tool.

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February MBI at 60.4 – Growth Rate Remains Steady

 With a reading of 60.4, the MBI showed that the metalworking industry continued to grow at a steady rate.

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Incomes up 3.5%, Spending Up 11.9%

Most of the increase in incomes was due to the payroll tax cut that began in January, but this increase didn’t translate into faster growth in spending.

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Feathering Your Nest

 Many shops are expanding the operations performed for their customers in order to be a more valuable supplier.

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Deburring

How Electro-Chemical Machining Works

Machine tool builder EMAG has produced a very nice video that explains and illustrates how the electro-chemical machining (ECM) process is able to perform simple deburring operations as well as produce precision surfaces and shapes.

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Holemaking

Tips for Tapping Titanium Alloys

Creating threaded holes in titanium alloys calls for proper techniques based on an understanding of both the properties of these materials and the peculiarities of the tapping process.

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Aerospace

Special High-Temp Alloys Spark Interest in EDM

Today’s wire EDM technology preserves the surface integrity of proprietary titanium alloys and other high-temperature materials, so aerospace and medical applications using this process are booming.

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Automation

Logic and Neural Network: When a Factory “Thinks for Itself”

EMO Hannover 2011 is Europe's big "trade show for the metal working sector," but the event is billed as "more than machine tools." Show sponsors say that exhibits will both reflect and to support current research at the frontiers of production automation.

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Automation

EMO: The “Brainy” Machine Tool Show

EMO Hannover 2011 is Europe’s big “trade show for the metalworking sector,” but the event is billed as “more than machine tools.” Show sponsors say that exhibits will both reflect and support current research at the frontiers of production automation.

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MMS Blog is 1 Year Old

Today is the one-year anniversary of 91Ƶվ’s blog going live.

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