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Horizontal & Vertical Lathes

Adding Value, Reducing Cost with Inverted Vertical Turning Centers

Inverted vertical turning centers find a home in an automotive stamping house.

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Automation

Choosing an Automatic Bar Feeder

The bar feeder is the most common form of automation for turning operations. Selecting the right one requires consideration of the applications for which it will be used.

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Is it Supply or Demand that Drives Our Business?

The Great Recession, which lasted from December 2007 to June 2009, established conclusively for me that it is demand and not supply that determines our businesses’ success. (NBER, 2010).

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Tooling

Through-Coolant for Swiss Machines

This system allows shops to quickly transform the standard external-coolant live tooling heads on their turning machine turrets into those with through-tool-coolant capability.

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PMPA Member Huron Automatic Screw Co. Finds Success in Strategic Planning and Reliability

A major turning point in Huron Automatic’s success began about 20 years ago, when the company started to invest more time in its strategic planning.

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Six Reasons Steel is Vacuum Treated

Vacuum degassing treatments, along with various de-oxidation practices, are specified to control the amounts of dissolved gases in the steel.

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Trends in Advanced Industries: Brookings Institute

The Brookings Institute has prepared a comprehensive report on America’s Advanced Industries, or industries that invest at least $450 per worker in R&D and employ at least 20 percent of their workforce in STEM-intensive occupations.

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