MMS Blog

How to Practice Stage Two Thinking in Your Machine Shop

Responsible decision-making requires thinking beyond the initial benefits to consider how a change ripples throughout the machine shop’s operations and culture.

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Milling Tools

Burnishing Face Mill Eliminates Manual Lapping, Polishing

Why task employees to polish large, flat metal surfaces? Try a machine tool with a diamond burnishing face mill instead.  

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One Example Changed the Course of 3D Printing at This GM Plant

General Motors of Spring Hill, Tennessee, depends on tooling to assemble thousands of vehicles per year. 3D printed tools have become integral.

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Basics

How To Audit Your Machine Shop Improvements

Here are a few practical approaches for auditing your manufacturing initiatives.

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Top Shops

For This CNC Machine Shop, Growth is Both Wonderful and Hard

JD Machine’s sales have nearly doubled since 2013 when it was a Top Shops winner. Developing a workforce to support that growth is a challenge the shop is meeting head-on.

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Coronavirus Demands a Data-Driven Response

CNC machining businesses are justifiably concerned about the COVID-19’s effect on metalworking supply chains, but they are not helpless. Data illuminate the path ahead.

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DMG MORI Invests in the Future by Providing Integrated Solutions

During a recent open house event at DMG MORI’s factory in Pfronten, Germany, the company highlighted advances in digitalization as well as automation and additive manufacturing.

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Measurement

What’s the Correct Reading?

A CMM, a bore mic and an air gage measure parts differently and may provide different values, yet all of them may be correct. Here’s how.

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Automation

Video: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Manufacturing and Machining

The machine tool monitoring that many CNC machining facilities are doing today could be a first step toward their use of machine learning. In this conversation, MMS’s “Data Matters” columnist Matt Danford speculates on the coming role of AI for refining machining processes.  

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Economics

February Metalworking Index and the Impact of the Coronavirus

As efforts to counter COVID-19 affect the global supply chain, Gardner Intelligence is carefully tracking their potential impact on the industry.

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CNC Tech Talks

4 Things to Incorporate in CAM-System-Generated CNC Programs

Streamline G-code programs created by CAM systems.

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Automation

Robots Get Hand-Eye Coordination

Artificial vision, touch and intelligence help collaborative robots cope with the unpredictable.

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