June 2025 Issue
June 2025
Digital Edition
Features
Featured articles from the June 2025 issue of Production Machining
The Most Powerful Tool
Because of a “thank you,” I found my tribe, my highest and best use, and my place in the world of precision machining.
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Second B Axis Improves Efficiency of Swiss-Type Machining
A highly stable, fully programmable B axis on the subspindle of Nomura DS’s 20J3XBTC enables users to more quickly machine complex parts complete.
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Precision Machining Index Returns to Contraction with April Reading of 46.2
Tariff uncertainty drives market hesitancy as shops report drop in new orders.
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Succeeding at Swiss
McCormick Industries is no stranger to Swiss-type machining. Here are examples of ways the shop has found to become more efficient not only at using its CNC sliding-headstock machines, but at its overall shopfloor processes and practices, too.
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Taking the Complexity out of Swiss Machining
How machine shops become more efficient with offline CAM programming, featuring toolpath generation, built-in simulation, multichannel control, proven postprocessors and seamless Solidworks integration.
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How Might You Use a Desktop CNC Swiss-Type?
This compact machine could be valuable for education and training purposes as well as low-volume production work that shops might not want to run on their traditional Swiss-types.
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Lights, Camera, CNC Tool Alignment
The latest version of a noncontact tool alignment system for Swiss-type lathes, which stays permanently installed in the machines, can enable shops to set up tools on-center faster using a camera compared to traditional methods.
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Faster Swiss-Type Setup is a Probing Issue
Perhaps no other technological development has impacted setup time reduction on Swiss-type lathes more than automatic tool probing functions.
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Welcome to Our Special Swiss-Type-Machining Issue
Coverage of CNC sliding-headstock machining technology, processes and practices has been a staple for the Production Machining brand since day one. With this issue, we pay tribute to it and pay it forward.
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