Cutting Tool Engineering Magazine

• Look Ahead: QC just got easier
• Grinding Doc: Benefits of dummy workpieces
• Swiss-style machining: Swap toolholders in 30 seconds or less
• New breed of facemills offer versatility
• Talking Shop: Global leader discusses the future and fate of metalworking
• Manager's Desk: Consider the costs of growth
• Lead Angle: Growth expectations for 2019
• Manufacturing industry growth projected to slow in 2019
• Machine Technology: The FOGS HD can rough and finish precisely
• Reduce time producing large parts
• Hole finishing improves with standard processes
• Lasers the key to productive, high-quality parts marking

Cutting Tool Engineering is proud to present its annual Buyers Guide issue.

• Consider the benefits of quick-change tooling systems
• Machinist's Corner: A market for good employees
• Mind the grind
• DFM for the Long Run
• Manager's Desk: Observant eyes and ears can keep problems in check
• Moving ahead with multitaskers
• Machine Technology: Robot arm reaches for milling goals
• Retrofits keep CNC machines in business
• Rego-Fix accepts bitcoin for payment
• Look-Ahead: Stabilizing gummy metal for more efficient cutting
• Get with the Program: Personalization vs. Customization
• Productive Times: Keep machining circle unbroken

• Automating chuck changeovers
• The challenges of sawing new alloys
• Machinist's Corner: What type of employee are you?
• Exploring mother machines
• Get with the Program: 5-axis machine provides prototype flexibility
• Machine Technology: Combo machine boosts accuracy
• Straight talk about drilling straight, deep holes
• Workholding: Innovative ways to grip the ungraspable
• Manager's Desk: Cheap versus experienced workers
• Get the spin on rotors

• Machining With a Shear
• Honing's low-cost alternative
• Talking Shop: Company gears up for growth
• New release makes the (small) cut
• Manager's Desk: You may have untapped talent
• IMTS: Hang 10 in Chicago
• Multi-spindle machines on rise
• CTE Salary Survey results analyzed
• CTE's Biennial Salary Survey: The results are in
• Shop operations: Machined parts shop's formula for success
• Machine Technology: Automate in less shop space
• The need for ta-C
• HSS tools in demand world-wide
• Gain loyalty with after-sales support

• Multitask lathes edge in on machining centers
• Shop tackles tall, large, unique parts
• 5G test bed reduces measurement lag time
• How to choose the right toolholder
• A little lean manufacturing goes a long way
• Future of automated QC
• Cutting benefits of ceramic and cermet tools
• Software add-on gives shop fast results
• Machinist's Corner: Let’s have a one-on-one about goals
• Get With the Program: Choosing the best in advance condition monitoring
• Shop Operations: For this shop, it's about more than making parts
• Machine Technology: Good machines can come in small packages
• Manager's Desk: Get the word out on your shop
• Leap of Faith

• Honing provides benefits for all types of tools    

Special digital supplement to the July 18 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering focused on defining truing parameters: a collaboration between Rush Machinery and The Grinding Doc.

• Sports R&D company adds VMC
• Natural disaster plan a must
• Gaining control of a blanchard grinder
• Avoiding Workholding Woes
• Despite its advantages, new technology isn't always embraced
• Getting a chatter diagnosis
• Shop-floor data analysis not negotiable
• Technological advances make laser machining more practical
• Grinding ceramic medical parts requires (diamond) grit, patience
• Working less can boost productivity
• Machine Technology: Machine tool controls with AI learn on the job

• Changing workflow: Bringing work to the workpiece
• Innovative turning process for vertical lathes
• Material-specific taps continue to evolve
• New approaches to machining microscale medical parts
• Deburring: an essential but often overlooked process
• Machinist's Corner: When suppliers are the weakest link in the chain
• Shop Operations: Do you tap or thread-mill?
• Get With The Program: Post-programming fixture design
• Lasers take Swiss-style lathes to higher level
• Machine Technology: Taking a turn for the better
• Manager's Desk: When not to listen
• Studying the impact of climate change on machines

• Machine Technology: Actions to keep spindles spinning
• Look Ahead: Nippon Bearing unveils EXRAIL roller guide
• Look Ahead: Mitsubishi introduces stand-alone M80W CNC
• Understanding coatings and how they lower machining costs
• Making the most of tired CNC machining centers
• Shop Operations: Precision at Mach speed
• Ask The Grinding Doc: Reducing hydroplaning forces while grinding
• Shop credits growth to focus on machining large parts
• Manager's Desk: Spring attitude adjustment
• Effective training programs improve employees’ skills, morale
• Your machinists are not the problem

• Look Ahead: Superfine-abrasive waterjetting
• Look Ahead: Staying on the cutting edge
• Shop implements system of safety tickets
• Productive Times: A 'liquid' tool change
• Factors to consider before bringing abrasive waterjetting in-house
• Advanced metalworking fluid filtration aids finer finish
• Moldmakers tout benefits of aluminum molds for production
• Reprogramming your reaction to priciest tools
• Gear pioneer Kate Gleason was way ahead of her time
• Rising complexity of machine maintenance
• Shop Operations: Don't hack away at chatter problems
• Cemecon opens new tool coating facility
• Shop bulks up machine arsenal to make colossal components
• Developing tools for cutting composites
• Machine Technology: Protecting man, woman and machine
• Manager's Desk: Protect proprietary company information
• Big market for colossal parts

• Lead Angle: View from Earth will do just fine, thank you
• Automation helping small-to-medium suppliers compete
• Advancements in digital vision systems make measuring parts simpler, more repeatable
• Maximize preventive maintenance for machine tools
• Ask the Grinding Doc: Wheel tests on the fly
• Inverting the spindle on a vertical turret lathe can make a great lathe even better
• Deburring lab seeks to smooth rough edges faster
• Shop Operations: A few unorthodox machining tips
• Manager's Desk: Owning company communications
• Proper way to measure feature concentricity