A collaboration between CTE and Seco Tools, this digital supplement offers insight into optimized roughing and the critical factors that govern success or failure with this milling strategy. Download the PDF or page through our flipbook to read more about optimized roughing best practices and view a four-part video series featuring advice from Jay Ball, Seco product manager, solid milling.
Cutting Tool Engineering Magazine
Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, published 12 times a year by CTE Publications Inc., helps manufacturing professionals enhance the productivity of their companies' cutting and grinding operations. Browse through the issues below and select the digital format you prefer: via our CTEplus digital edition app, a PDF file, or a digital edition designed for desktop computers.
December 2019 | Vol. 71 | Issue 12
- Palletization system boosts productivity
- What to do with workpiece rpm when burn occurs
- Coolant enhances worker health, safety
- Finish it with reaming
- Getting to know the lead angle
- A solid, not stellar outlook
- All about machining metal 3D-printed parts
- 3D Printing: Hybrid machines put 'done in one' on the table
- Additive manufacturing makes the cut
- Living large with 3D printing
November 2019 | Vol. 71 | Issue 1101
Special digital supplement from Cutting Tool Engineering.
October 2019 | Vol. 71 | Issue 10
- Final thoughts from Michael Deren
- Pick and choose business opportunities
- Researchers find strengths in 'metallic wood'
- Tool management system to the rescue
- Prepare for industry 4.0 with new drive
- Maxing out multitasking
- Productive presetting
- Cutting raw materials into usable workpieces
- Making waterjet precision possible
- Heat treating in-house
September 2019 | Vol. 71 | Issue 9
- Where is your career headed?
- When the team has your back
- This toolholder's got smarts
- Part marking the traditional way
- Motivation for automation
- Minutes count when machining large orders
- Prototyping picks up speed with metal 3D printing
- Selecting the appropriate drill design
- Easing the grind
- Grinding gets smart
August 2019 | Vol. 71 | Issue 8
- Ceratizit SA hopes to change the turning process
- Gradual versus incremental cross-feed
- Friends, employees don't mix
- A tool-setting blue light special
- Work cells work
- Boosting production capacity with ‘brobots’
- Reduce lead times with Esprit
- Swiss-style CNC lathes gaining popularity
- Working hard to avoid workhardening
- Cylindrical die thread rolling is quick and economical
- Instead of breaking a saw blade, break it in
July 2019 | Vol. 71 | Issue 7
- Company benefits or lack thereof
- Make a name for your company with community involvement
- Inside the impact of inserts
- Boring: Calculating deflection
- Part manufacturer seeks to oust weak machining link
- Unorthodox machining odds and ends
- Turn out the lights on wire EDMing
- Spindle sensor enhances safety
- Additive approach to machining Ti6Al4V
- Catching ‘22’: Beat the challenges of titanium
- Focusing on high-speed inspection
- Extended-reach toolholders remain a requirement
June 2019 | Vol. 71 | Issue 6
- Extending tool lifetimes
- Keeping the family together
- Cooling OD burn
- Shop seeks to maximize machine tool investment
- Technology tames gear trouble for machine shops
- Bet on waterjet
- Efficiently remove material
- Automated data capture slow to sell
- Machine tools tap AI
- STS takes tool coatings in-house
- High-performance tool coatings provide vital protection
May 2019 | Vol. 71 | Issue 5
- Fluid recycling can aid profits
- Diffusion bonding is cool
- Machine monitoring done right
- Trade show time again
- Technology advances CNC broaching systems
- Reading still an important business practice
- Plant retools machining process
- Apprenticeships can provide effective training
- The difficulties of tapping
- Laser used for Exact cutting
- CT scanning changes the game in metrology
April 2019 | Vol. 71 | Issue 4
- Hot diamonds and barber pole
- Market your shop through the slow down
- Simulating on-machine probing
- Machining large parts takes specialized mindset
- Emag modernizes maintenance
- Automated inspection takes flight
- Specialized tools help deburr cross-holes
- Math matters
- Get the most out of tried-and-true machinist vises
- Cool cost cutting
March 2019 | Vol. 71 | Issue 3
- How your shop looks makes all the difference
- Managing from a distance
- Sizing up anodizing
- Technology has made hard milling more feasible
- KRC Machine Tool rebrands and rebuilds
- Microfinishing shifts gears
- 5G technology on the shop floor
- Surface roughness measurement can be challenging
- CMMs automate part measurement
- Moldmaker pioneers use of femtosecond laser technology
- Sculptor finds the art in machining
