July 2025 Issue
July 2025
Digital Edition
Features
Featured articles from the July 2025 issue of Production Machining
How To Read an HTS Code
With tariffs at the forefront of everyone’s mind, it it important to understand how Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes work.
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Have You Checked Your Quote Book Recently?
Check your quote book to get a glimpse of where your business is positioned.
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An Investment in Hope and Second Chances
Rise Up Industries’ machine operator training program enables former gang members to find sustainable employment and successful reentry into society. It has recently expanded into a new facility in San Diego and support is always welcome.
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CNC Single-Spindle Automatics: A Possible Alternative to Swiss-Types
For many types of high-production, high-precision machining applications, new CNC single-spindle technology might be a more productive, cost-effective choice.
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What’s Your Manufacturing Lore?
If your company could speak for itself, what stories would it tell?
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Change Leadership vs. Change Management: Why You Need Both
Change is necessary for continuous improvement. Knowing the distinction between change leadership and management can be the difference between success or failure.
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Smart Tooling Strategies are Critical for High-Speed Machining
The type of machine tool matters, but so do quality toolholders and cutters with minimal runout to establish an effective high-speed machining process.
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Machining Consequences Due to Eliminating Lead from Alloys
Removing lead from brass has a number of consequences when machining parts such as electrical connectors in large volumes. Here are some strategies for overcoming such machining challenges.
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Precision Machining Index Recovers Ground in May
Manufacturing activity recovered in May, but not enough to claim return to expansion.
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Craftsman Cribsheet No. 141: 10 Things We Learned at Horn Technology Days 2025
Horn's Technology Days 2025 event was far more than an open house.
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Generating Value — Generational Values
Accounting accounts for costs. How does a successful multigenerational business account for value(s)?
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Manufacturing Wellness: 8 Habits of Highly Effective Machine Shops
From an early age, we learn that good habits can make a lifetime of difference. Eat your vegetables. Say please and thank you. Exercise regularly. Just as with people, manufacturers can make a difference in their long-term success and growth by developing strong, positive “manufacturing wellness” habits.
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Injection Foaming Tech Reduces Density, Increases Mechanical Properties
Based on an additive package custom-tailored to the application, Moxietec’s foaming technology promises stronger parts through consistent bubbles.
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From Zero to Full: The Day That Nearly “Finished” a Finishing Shop
What began as doomsday for this Michigan finisher turned out to be a victory when the shop went from no ecoat business to full capacity. After that day and within two weeks, management onboarded 72 employees to keep up with its business.
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Process Control — Leveraging Machine Shop Connectivity in Real Time
Renishaw Central, the company’s new end-to-end process control software, offers a new methodology for producing families of parts through actionable data.
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