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Machining Centers & Milling Machines

Are Bar Fed Machining Centers the Next Big Thing?

Advanced mill-turn machines with bar fed material handling can overcome several inherent weaknesses of production machining on vertical machining centers.

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Horizontal Axis Crushers Manage Tough Chips

There are a few shop processes that are necessary evils: One of them is chip management and removal.

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Software

New Opportunities with CAM

A shop’s first steps into programming with CAM can be intimidating. But this company found success in fearless flexibility and the right software to fit its applications.

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Cutting Tools

New Use of Hard Machining Can Replace EDM

Throughout the past decade, new developments in cutting tools and machining center technologies have opened the door for milling of complex component shapes and geometries in hardened materials previously accomplished through Electrical Discharge Machining.

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The Franklin Partnership: PMPA's 'Boots on the Ground' in Washington, D.C.

PMPA’s latest advocacy effort intensified 3 years ago when it engaged The Franklin Partnership as its lobbyist in the nation’s capital.

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The Show Must Go On

According to AMT, the IMTS sponsor, more than 1,100 exhibitors are scheduled to come out of their bunkers to demonstrate what they’ve been working on for the last 2 years.

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