- 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
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, and provides essential insights for machining professionals. Browse through our digital issue archive below and select the digital format you prefer: via our Cutting Tool Engineering app, a PDF file, or an interactive digital edition that can be viewed on any device by visiting digital.ctemag.com.
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Issue Archive
August 2019 | Vol. 71 | Issue 8
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
February 2019 | Vol. 71 | Issue 2
- A quality assurance audit has benefits
- Rotary Dressing: Stop Whining
- Interface enables machines to speak a common language
- ‘Basic’ endmill is anything but
- Quick-change act
- Carbide control from chaos
- With MQL, the advantages are clear
- Turning catching up in the use of chip thinning
- Automating a CNC lathe has become a lot easier
January 2019 | Vol. 71 | Issue 1
- Putting a damper on vibration
- What a drag it is getting old
- Leverage relationships outside the shop
- Our secret weapon
- The ins and outs of machine tool spindle maintenance
- Industry 4.0: Making grinding machines smarter
- Industry 4.0: Advantages of edge computing
- 5 stages of automation collaboration
- Industrial parts cleaning faces challenges
- Toolholder cures runout woes
- Machine Technology: Alexa and Siri, meet Athena for machining
- Tap passes the acid test
- A closer look at boring combustion parts
December 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 12
- 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
November 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 11
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October 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 10
- 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
September 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 9
- 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
