- 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
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.
February 2017 | Vol. 69 | Issue 2
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
September 2016 | Vol. 68 | Issue 9
Combination machines bridge the gap between manual and CNC equipment. PLUS:
- Lead Angle: Overcoming the skills gap
- Ceramic composite cutting tools: are they tough enough?
- The evolving technology of tool presetting
- Proper mist collection necessary for shop floor safety
- A tale of two cutting tools: solid and indexable-insert drills
- Net/Working with specialty subscription websites
- Get With The Program: Generate consistent and accurate pricing with cost-estimating software
- Machine Technology: Rotary unions help deliver coolant to the cutting zone
- Shop Operations: Benefits of becoming familiar with CAM software
- Machinist's Corner: IMTS is the place to check your wish list
- Hand-in Glove Robotic Technology
- (Polyn)urban Renewal
August 2016 | Vol. 68 | Issue 8
"Deflated Earnings," the cover story in our August 2016 issue, reveals the paychecks metalworking professionals receive are not packing as much punch. PLUS:
- Lead Angle: We are going to the show
- Maximum-performance milling outperforms traditional milling by a long shot
- Making light work
- One PVD coating technique with certain advantages
- Which is better: dry or wet machining?
- Multiple methods are available for deburring holes
- Single-point thread programming can be fun and easy
- PCD reamers offer long tool life and productivity gains while reducing secondary operations
- Productive Times: One-shot wonder
- Productive Times: Rotary table speeds production
- Manager's Desk: An unexpected role
- Get With The Program: Monitoring machines in real time
- Machine Technology: Short pulses offer long-term gains
- Shop Operations: Becoming familiar with CAD
- Ask The Grinding Doc: Grinding sensitive parts
- A strong, but light-load-bearing metal nano-composite
- A new tooling, software combination to speed blisk production
July 2016 | Vol. 68 | Issue 7
"Multibenefit Machines," the cover story in our July 2016 issue, looks at how multitasking machines boost cutting time and cash flow. PLUS:
- Clamp Down
- Cutting Remarks
- High-Pressure Work
- A Simple Diagnosis
- Coming Revolution
- Manager's Desk: Customer visit is striking
- Machine Technology: Systems for avoiding or mitigating machine tool crashes
- Talking Shop: Drilling expert Greg Forman discusses deep-hole drills
- Shop Operations: Importance of communication between engineers and shop personnel
- Machinist's Corner: How to address manufacturing's image problem
June 2016 | Vol. 68 | Issue 6
"Flying-Machine Machining," the cover story in our June 2016 issue, delves into the delamination of composites and other workpiece problems that challenge aerospace parts makers. PLUS:
- Airing differences
- Above and beyond
- Data-driven manufacturing
- Manager's Desk: Take a strategic approach to golden opportunities
- Machine Technology: Portable drill machine for multilayer materials
- Workholding: Benefits of an innovative quick-change jaw system
- Shop Operations: Importance of interaction between machinists and engineers
- Ask the Grinding Doc: Options when grinding cams
May 2016 | Vol. 68 | Issue 5
"Big Money—Small Times," the cover story in our May 2016 issue, takes a closer look at the potential profitability of machining microparts. PLUS:
- Challenges in the micro-EDM world
- Benefits of laser-based micromachining
- Terms of the trade for surface roughness measurement
- Manufacturers see value of investing in training
- Moving large, complex parts calls for specialized equipment
- Manager's Desk: Managing worker illnesses and deaths
- Machine Technology: Latest developments in machine tool lubrication
- Shop Operations: Challenges of chamfering and edge dressing
- Get With The Program: Implementing CAM strategies for barrel cutters
- Machinist's Corner: Where have all the apprenticeship programs gone?
April 2016 | Vol. 68 | Issue 4
The April 2016 cover story, "Right on Time," addresses accurate shop floor scheduling—often hard to achieve, but nonetheless important. PLUS:
- Pallet-changing systems help VMCs hold their own in production environments.
- Troubleshooting solid-carbide boring bars requires the right diagnosis
- Reducing setup time provides more time for making chips.
- Women are playing an increasingly important role in manufacturing.
- Manager's Desk: Strategies for handling an uptick in business.
- Machine Technology: Jig borers are highly accurate "mother machines."
- Shop Operations: Advantages of rigid workholding.
- Swiss-Style Machining: A comparison of turret-mounted and gang-style, slide-mounted toolholders.
- Ask the Grinding Doc: Madness surrounds grinding wheel tests.
March 2016 | Vol. 68 | Issue 3
"Chips Away," the March 2016 cover story, covers central conveyor systems that declutter shops and make them safer. PLUS:
- Better Threaders: Automatic threaders for wire EDMs have made significant advancements.
- Testing, Testing ... How often should you test metalworking fluids?
- Controlling the Process: Careful consideration can yield efficiencies when implementing inspection processes.
- Product Showcase: New products for the metalworking industry.
- Manager's Desk: Simple ways to improve employee morale.
- Machine Technology: Benefits of a good spindle maintenance program.
- Shop Operations: More ways to avoid machine tool crashes.
- Get With The Program: Enhancing competitiveness with asset-monitoring software.
- Machinist's Corner: Importance of evaluating nonconforming parts with a material review board.
