- 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
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.
September 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 9
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
March 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 3
- EDM focus turns to throughput, ease of use, automation
- Hybrid machine tools for moldmakers
- 6 tips for improving turning operations
- Honing seen as capable, but underused finishing process
- Packaging with care
- Machine tool school days
- Kennametal CEO's take on simplifying production
- Reaping the benefits of lights-out machining
- Culture-changing tools
- OSHA’s SHARP program for small businesses
- Machinist's Corner: Cheap marketing can have an impact
- Get With The Program: Maximizing spindle time
- Machine Technology: To extend or not to extend?
- Shop Operations: Odds and ends
- Machinist's Corner: Talking safety
- Proper fluid management, filtration keep sumps cleaner
- Productive Times: Capacity relief
- Look Ahead: Remotely interesting monitoring
- Look Ahead: AI robot finds its way
February 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 2
- Lead Angle: Sounds of the season
- Cover Story: Pint-sized precision
- The age of aqueous cleaning
- Successful threadmaking requires the right gages
- Broaching a blind keyway with an inserted tool
- Live tooling capabilities on the rise
- 3 views of manufacturing
- Automating thread inspection on tubular goods
- Prize turns quick profit for waterjet machine winner
- Manager's Desk: Inspiration from immigration
- Machine Technology: Alternatives to hand-feeding machines
- Workholding: Secured by suction
- Shop Operations: Becoming familiar with a machine
- Ask The Grinding Doc: Decrease diameter, increase speed
- Productive Times: A mountain (bike) of chips
- Look Ahead: Low-temperature PVD coating
- Look Ahead: Calibration celebration
- Metalworking Product Review: February 2017
January 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 1
- Lead Angle: Manufacturing and millennials
- Cover Story: Through-coolant toolholders: efficient, economical
- Tips, techniques for nonperpendicular holemaking
- Experts assess current, future inspection technologies
- Enduring attachments
- Manager's Desk: Being the face of your shop
- Machinist's Corner: Lean from 30,000 feet
- Machine Technology: Financing your next machine tool
- Talking Shop: A Custom Grind
- Get With The Program: Optimization software saves time
- Shop Operations: CNC training begins with changing tools
- Productive Times: High-pressure holemaking
- Look Ahead: Burning hard metal
- Look Ahead: A combination tool for thread forming
December 2016 | Vol. 68 | Issue 12
- Lead Angle: Going to New Orleans
- A quick-start guide to centerless grinding
- Industry experts predict better, but not great year
- Turning hardened materials presents challenges, opportunities
- Pros & cons of parts marking methods
- Tracing sinker EDMing back to its original spark
- Manager's Desk: Tougher & wiser in times of turmoil
- Ask the Grinding Doc: Setting up a lab
- Look Ahead: Industry 4.0, packaged
- Look Ahead: Another kind of multitask machine
- Swiss-Style Machining: Maximizing with multispindles
- Machine Technology: New life for an old machine
- Get With The Program: Achieving machining effectiveness
- Shop Operations: Cracking the code
- Productive Times: Taking a break from breakdowns
- Productive Times: Out with the old ...
November 2016 | Vol. 68 | Issue 11
Cutting Tool Engineering's annual Buyers Guide issue.
October 2016 | Vol. 68 | Issue 10
The October 2016 issue addresses the benefits of conversational programming for 5-sided machining. PLUS:
- Pros and cons of indexable tools
- Manager's Desk: Navigating customer portals
- Titanium Cutting Simplified
- 3D Printing, To Infinity and Beyond
- Lead Angle: In Screen We Trust
- Shop Operations: Becoming Familiar With Code
- Workholding: Mod Squad
- Machinist's Corner: Improving Daily Management
- Machine Technology: Sound Shakes Up Machining
- Get With The Program: Bring on the Heat
- Engineer-Speak
- Shop Profile: Seco Machine on the right track
- Finite element analysis in the supply chain
- Titanium Cutting Simplified
- 3D Printing, To Infinity and Beyond
