Cutting Tool Engineering Magazine

• Lightweight tools for e-mobility
• When to shift from rapid feed to roughing
• Taming data overload
• Magnetic workholders reduce setup, changeover times
• Milling setup tricks
• Machine maintenance programs boost bottom line
• Machine tool common language controversy
• What is your shop wasting?
• International system of units overview
• Ream a 'hole' lot better with replaceable heads

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.

• 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

Special digital supplement from Cutting Tool Engineering.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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