Workforce Is Still the Most Important Challenge
By: Miles Free
It is as true today as it was 10 years ago...workforce is top of mind for precision machining shops.
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2 Shops, 2 Ways to Benefit from OEE
By: Lori Beckman
An overall equipment effectiveness tracking and manufacturing analytics tool has enabled two machine shops to increase their machine utilization, which led to even more positive results.
Medical Screw Solution Includes More than Cutting Tools
Edited by Julia Hider
With companies producing so many medical screws, every second saved counts. A turnkey program can help manufacturers machine these parts as efficiently as possible.
Automation Brings Reliability to Laser Marking Bone Screws
By: Lori Beckman
To overcome human error in laser marking, consider a reliable, high-throughput automated system designed to run 24/7.
New Cleaning Methods for Alternative Manufacturing Processes
By: Lori Beckman
Tyler Wheeler, product line manager at Ecoclean Group, covered the current manufacturing trends and how cleaning technologies are evolving to keep up with the cleaning demands of these trends.
A New Year Resolution for Your Business
By: Carli Kistler-Miller
Need a New Year resolution that will help your business, productivity and hiring practices? Create or review your company’s mission statement, vision statement and core values.
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Precision Machining Technology Review February 2022: Automation & Robots
Edited by Angela Osborne
Production Machining’s automation and robotics showcase includes Mitsubishi Electric, Carr Lane, Made4CNC, FANUC, United Grinding and Comau.
Weathering the Ups and Downs Together
By: Sherry Stepp, MCA President
No matter what the weather is like in your part of the world, we are all facing similar challenges in our businesses.
In a Wireless Age, Cables are Transforming Manufacturing
By: Stewart Beer, Site Manager, Electrix International
In the future, technological advancements in manufacturing will rely even more on the increased efficiency and safety of cables.
Brulin Company Profile
As a process chemical manufacturer, we start with our customers and partners, spending significant amounts of time in their environments listening and learning to understand their cleaning needs, problems and processes.
A New Face Grooving Technique for Mills
By: Derek Korn
Here is an alternative to standard end milling — an operation performed on a CNC milling machine to produce circular grooves in the part face. This new single-point trepanning tooling strategy can produce both symmetrical and asymmetrical face grooves, too, and perform fly cutting.
Production Machining’s February 2022 News Highlights
Edited by Angela Osborne
Our precision machining industry is looking forward and backward — so to speak — with a variety of collaborations, design awards, workforce development and even historical restorations.
Cutter Considerations for Turning Titanium
By: Alex Minich-Applications Engineer & Project Development EMEA-Greenleaf Europe B.V.
Effective titanium turning requires the proper selection of cutting tools and machining processes to mitigate the effects of the material’s unique chemical and physical properties.
Some Assembly IS Required
By: Derek Korn
This Colorado manufacturer added a separate facility dedicated to customer assembly work and inventory management to produce subassemblies and completed products primarily for medical customers.
5-S: Ask a Toolmaker
By: Miles Free
A place for everything and everything in its place. A visit to Fischer Special Tooling during PMPA’s Mastery Program provided a glowing example of the 5-Ss: Sorting, Setting in order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain.
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Ceramic Inserts Can Boost Turning Productivity
By: Eric Spencer, Founder, Machiningdoctor.com
When applied correctly, ceramic inserts can dramatically increase cutting speeds, providing shorter cycle times and cost savings compared to carbide for turning operations.
A Shop Snapshot(s) in Time
By: Derek Korn
Shamrock Precision has made significant strides to diversify its customer base and implement various process improvements, applying a crawl, walk, run approach to adding new technology such as ERP and automation.
What’s Still Cam-Driven and Why?
By: Derek Korn
Combining select cam-driven functions with CNC technology for this multi-spindle platform is said to help reduce machine cost while retaining high machining speed, precision and production.
Craftsman Cribsheet No. 103: Advantages of CNC Machining
Provided by W.H. Bagshaw Co. Inc. in Nashua, New Hampshire
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SWOT for Employee Retention and Recruitment
By: Carli Kistler-Miller
What is your brand? Why should people want to work for your company? How can your brand improve? A SWOT analysis can help answer these questions — your employee retention and recruitment may count on it.
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