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.
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.
June 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 6
- 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
May 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 5
- 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
April 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 4
- 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
March 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 3
- 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
February 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 2
- 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
January 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 1
- From Single-Task Machines to Backflipping Robots: The Evolution of Robots
- Poll reveals CNC likes and dislikes
- Tips for preventing workhardening when boring
- In Digital Manufacturing, the Product Is Intellectual Property
- Machinist's Corner: Raising the level of skills
- Get With The Program: Silo systems can't maintain equipment
- Shop Operations: Flat stones for fine finishing
- Productive Times: Abrasive globules for finishing
- Machine Technology: Added dimensions boost accuracy
- Look Ahead: Speeding up lubrication
- Look Ahead: A here-and-now gage
- Manager's Desk: Learn and don't repeat
- Lead Angle: Setting the stages for Industry 4.0
December 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 12
- Cutting oil fire risk requires precautions
- Manufacturing dignity for patients
- Manufacturing parts in outer space
- Look Ahead: Autonomous milling goes the distance
- Look Ahead: Flexible, accurate edge inspection
- Turning to improvisation to meet customer needs
- Poll offers snapshot of what matters to CNC users
- As economic outlooks go, 2018 is looking up
- Productive Times: Modular toolholder finds its groove
- Rebuilding a CNC machine takes skill and money. Is it worth it?
- Quick-change-jaw systems for chucks offer multiple benefits
- Get With the Program: From machine to CAM programming
- Shop Operations: Clever tools for finding an edge
- Ask the Grinding Doc: Avoiding chatter resonance
- Convertible headstocks becoming the norm on Swiss-style machines
- Large vertical lathes available at reasonable prices
- Manager's Desk: Shop owners need to review costs of services at year’s end
November 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 11
Cutting Tool Engineering's annual Buyers Guide issue.
October 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 10
- Look Ahead: All together now
- Look Ahead: Securing robots' 'personal space'
- Productive Times: Slicing through the challenge
- Modular fixturing pros and cons
- Navigating safety regulations
- Shop considers investing in 5-axis machining
- Get With the Program: Right from wrong
- Shop Operations: It's hip to be square
- Machinist's Corner: A look at D-O-W-N-T-I-M-E
- Chamfers and countersinks halt burr formation
- Machine Technology: Manually measuring 5-axis centerlines
- Understanding relationship between air pressure and flow
- Reaching new heights
- Three unexpected machine monitoring benefits
- Manager's Desk: Shops offer help after Harvey
- Lead Angle: Don't be scared to take five
- New approach to cutting heat-resistant superalloys
- Save time by setting tools offline with a presetter
- Autodesk: Constant cutting forces speed milling
- Longtime precision-machining shop adds 3D printing
September 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 9
- Look Ahead: Small advances in watwerjet
- Productive Times: Sold on a cell
- Investing in streamlined plant operations boosts profit
- Shop credits timing for successful holemaking operations
- Aerospace supplier lives up to challenges
- Alternatives to steep tapers
- Machinist's Corner: Show customers you care
- Get With the Program: Controlling the shop floor
- Machine Technology: No-hands tool changing
- Taking measures to improve metrology
- Three steps to optimizing machining
- No-cost thread mill program generators
- How to keep from scrapping parts
- High-pressure coolant breaks the vapor barrier
- Swarf is telling you something
- Manager's Desk: Shop owner deals with theft
- Shop Operations: A fresh look at 1-2-3 blocks
- 3D-printed bone drill improves surgeries
- Lead Angle: Targeting markets high and low
August 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 8
- Choosing a parts-marking method depends on the application
- Look Ahead: Trochoidal endmill (over)laps competition
- Look Ahead: Titanic robot, tiny tolerances
- Low-wattage lasers: faster, gentler, eco-friendly
- Factors affecting proper coolant application when grinding
- Lessons learned from threading nuts, bolts for gas turbines
- Process creates steel that's a-peeling
- CAD/CAM software for ultraprecision machining
- Explosive deburring ideal for complex parts
- Ask the Grinding Doc: Loading the wheel
- Shop Operations: Consider a 4-jaw independent lathe chuck
- Manager's Desk: Time to awaken the shop
- Machine Technology: Hybrid upsides and design considerations
- Lead Angle: Manufacturing and its myths
