FEATURES

Achieving Precision Surface Finishes with Slurry Blasting

Wet blasting is a dust-free and static-free process that removes burrs, scale, oxidation and rust, marks, paint and coatings, oils and grease while preparing the surface for other coatings or processes.

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Measurement

Big Visions for Micro Parts

Micromachined parts place unique demands on dimensional measurement systems. It pays to know the most effective approach for a given application.

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Transfer Machines

Changing your Comfort Zone

Through the years, leaders of many companies needed the courage to make the technological leap from machining precision parts on single-spindles to investing in their first rotary transfer machine.

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Craftsman's Cribsheet: How Society Drives Technical Innovation in Precision Machine Shops

The parts that we produce in our precision machining shops are usually embedded into other products that are sold.

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CAD/CAM

Efficient High-Speed Roughing

The Vortex roughing strategy produces tool paths with a controlled engagement angle for the complete operation.

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Meet the New PMPA Executive Director

Following an extensive search process, the board of directors of PMPA selected Michael T. Kobylka II as the new executive director of the association. He formally started his new role on August 1.

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Cutting Tools

Outsourced Job Moves In House to Save Money

Up against a tight deadline and down to a single insert to run an entire batch of hardened steel components, Metalmite turned to Sandvik Coromant to help overcome a tough threading operation and take an expensive outsourced job in-house for a fraction of the cost.

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PMPA Membership Provides Business Advantage to Laurel Steel

Laurel Steel has and continues to experience business and competitive advantages as a result of its almost 30-year-long technical membership in PMPA.

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Portable Sump Cleaner Brings Savings

For efficient operations and a positive, healthy work environment, companies need to keep in mind the overall cleanliness of the facility as well as important details such as the machine tools themselves and the cutting fluids being used.

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Purpose Built Micromachining Center

In metalworking, it is rare to find new approaches to well-established technologies; usually new developments are major or minor upgrades to known elements. This micromachining center is rewriting the rulebook.

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Still Kicking After Half a Century

In September 2013, Rick Kline, president of Gardner Business Media, celebrated 50 years with the company. It’s more than a milestone, it’s a testament.

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