Cutting Tool Engineering Magazine

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 ...

Cutting Tool Engineering's annual Buyers Guide issue.

• Manufacturers Index
• Distributors Index
• Machine Shop Index

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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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?