Derek Korn

Derek Korn Editor-in-Chief

Measurement

How Well do You Know Granite Surface Plates?

Edited by Derek Korn

Here are some tips for choosing, maintaining and customizing a granite solution that will best meet your shop’s particular inspection needs.

Automation & Robots

A Tale About an Automation Solution Discovered in Production Machining

By: Derek Korn

A CNC Swiss production supervisor took to LinkedIn to describe how he discovered a rotary parts collector in the pages of our publication and has since purchased and benefited from it.
#columns

Consider This Another CMMC Reminder

By: Derek Korn

Machine shops serving the military/defense industry that currently aren’t working toward achieving Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification could be caught flat-footed once it’s required.

Turning Machines

When a “Boxy” Part is Machined on a Lathe

Edited by Derek Korn

South Morgan Technologies has long thrived on its ability to mill prismatic parts on a turning platform. Today, newer technology and techniques enable saying “yes” to that work than ever before.
#horizontal-and-vertical-lathes

The Value of RFID Machine Operator Authentication

Edited by Derek Korn

Can secure shopfloor employee authentication via radio frequency identification enable shops to optimize their data-driven manufacturing efforts?
#Industry40

Cutting Tools

Addressing Micro-Boring Challenges

By: Derek Korn

This boring bar/tool holding system for Swiss-type lathes is said to offer high rigidity and positioning repeatability. In addition, the boring bars can be changed out using no hand tools.
#techbrief #micromachining

Machines

Robotic Automation Options for Vertical Turning Centers

Edited by Derek Korn

Custom robotic machine tending systems designed for specific high-volume machining applications can yield significant productivity and product flow benefits.
#techbrief #horizontal-and-vertical-lathes

Cutting Tools

Parting Off: The Case for Standardizing on Sawing

By: Derek Korn

The value of rotary saw cutting for parting off operations could boil down to simple economics paired with process efficiency gains.
#techbrief

The Value of Aligning Efforts to Promote Manufacturing Careers

Edited by Derek Korn

Successfully building the next generation of manufacturers requires a team effort between employers, educators and parents. Each of these three groups has a tremendous impact on young people’s career decisions. Without the support of all three, we are unlikely to bridge the skilled labor shortage that threatens the future growth of our industry.
#workforcedevelopment

Workholding

Bar Feeder Designed with Swiss-Types in Mind

By: Derek Korn

New technology enables this bar feeder to fully support the bar pusher and stock from inside the unit all the way to the spindle of a sliding headstock lathe.
#techbrief

Medical

German Project Yields Three New Medical Machining Processes

By: Derek Korn

Recent research has resulted in a new mix of high-speed turn whirl milling, polygon turning and rotational turning for manufacturing medical bone screws and out-of-round nails.
#techbrief

Measurement

Addressing Machining’s Necessary Evil

By: Derek Korn

Many view quality control as such, but integrating new measurement technologies and approaches can ultimately minimize QC’s impact on throughput and a company’s bottom line.
#columns