- 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
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.
March 2018 | Vol. 70 | Issue 3
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
July 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 7
- The fundamentals of industrial sawing
- Look Ahead: an oscillating laser head for joining, cutting
- Look Ahead: a novel 3D-connector inspection system
- Productive Times: a high-torque conversion
- Productive Times: Productivity times savings
- Determining when a custom toolholder is a better option
- Machinist's Corner: New kid on the block
- Shop Operations: Get your bearings
- Abrasive waterjets now a viable 3D cutting option
- Get With The Program: Making the most of macros
- Rotary transfer machines: Eclipsing the past
- Machine Technology: Preparation automation pays
- Custom machines offer solutions standard ones sometimes can’t
- One mission, two bottom lines
- Manager's Desk: Smart phone policies for shops
- Considerations when having taps resharpened
- Selecting a turret or gang tooling for a CNC lathe
- Tips for shops set on moving machine tools DIY
- Workholding solutions for 5-axis applications
- Lead Angle: Are we near the peak?
June 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 6
- Look Ahead: Point-and-click robot control
- Look Ahead: 3D printing picks up the pace
- Scanning a hypercar
- Productive Times: Kick out the jams
- Productive Times: From dovetails to dimples
- Trim waste with proactive environmental program
- Routing new composite materials requires new solutions
- Success detected for noncontact inspection
- Dry, tight fluid connectors require the right tool
- Ask the Grinding Doc: The question is academic
- Shop Operations: Catch a tiger by the tail
- Workholding: Building chucks to hold wheels
- Cleaning corrupt CAD models
- One year into the future at GE
- Colson Group reshores manufacturing
- Advancements in edge finders
- Toolmaker targets titanium
- Machine Technology: Building 'monster' machines
May 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 5
- Look Ahead: Fast process for depositing ultrahard coatings
- Look Ahead: A grinding machine designed for sintered ceramics
- Overview of parts deburring
- Small shops warm up to work cells
- Shop Profile: From pewter to ultraprecision CNC machine tools
- Demand rises for ultrahard-material cutting machines
- Machining 3D-printed metal
- Cutting tool and CAM collaboration
- Lead Angle: Rise of the soft machine
- Sandvik Coromant president promotes innovation
- Get With The Program: Cutting tool and CAM collaboration
- Machine Technology: Automating one machine
- Machinist's Corner: Ya' gotta love your vendors?
- Manager's Desk: The new normal
- Shop Operations: A better way to shorten screws
- Productive Times: Bonded by light
- Productive Times: Twin cutter boring head reveals more value over time
- Micromachining: The art and science of micro-moldmaking
- Micromachining: The essentials of manufacturing microtools
- Keep machine tools, shop floor data safe from hackers
April 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 4
- Choosing the right boring tool
- Rapid prototyping on a CNC machine tool
- MTU America: Machining parts for large diesel engines
- The Knee Mill: Still Standing
- Swiss Smarts
- Machine Technology: Fine points of modern sharpening
- Workforce: Finders Keepers
- Ask The Grinding Doc: Grinding steel shafts puts shop in 'fowl' mood
- Shop Operations: Workholder setup reduction
- Chicago-based innovation center to stoke manufacturing
- Productive Times: Brushing away chamfering
- Look Ahead: Stiff competition
- Look Ahead: Humanizing robotic movement
