August 2025 Issue
August 2025
Digital Edition
Features
Featured articles from the August 2025 issue of Production Machining
Unexpected Takeaways from the 2025 SID Congress
Seeing our industry through international eyes.
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PMPA’s New Executive Director: Emily Riley, MBA
Emily Riley brings vision, energy and a deep commitment to manufacturing excellence and member service.
Read MoreA Bit About What Korn Learned at Horn
Last May, Germany’s Paul Horn GmbH opened its doors to approximately 3,300 visitors from 33 countries. See some of what I discovered there relative to the company’s new cutting tool technology, its manufacturing capabilities and its culture.
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Critical Success Factors for Precision Micro Drilling
Component miniaturization requires smaller features with tighter tolerances, often in difficult-to-machine materials.
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Could Your New Entry-Level Employee be your Next CEO?
Leadership exposure and training is best served early and often.
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Deep-Hole Advice Using Replaceable-Insert Drills
A cautious approach, modern thinking, offline presetting and attention to coolant and chips unlock the potential of the latest replaceable-insert drills for deep-holemaking applications.
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Robotic Machine-Tending Ideas for Production Shops
Here are five examples of how machine shops have benefited in various ways by adding robots to tend machine tools.
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Craftsman Cribsheet No. 142: Techniques to Help Beat the Heat
Whether a person is on the shop floor or at home mowing the lawn, these six techniques can help them stay cool.
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Precision Machining Index Loses Momentum in June
A mixed bag of component results shakes out to a slight decline in the index.
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