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The time is ripe to expand domestic manufacturing.

Today’s multitasking machines offer more reasons than ever to combine normally separate operations.

Deep-hole drilling and automation make for productive work cells.

CSD-300II front-facing, twin-spindle lathe from Fuji Machine America Corp. sports a variety of new and improved features.

Abrasives play a significant part at a modern metalworking shop, but process design, optimization and safety aspects frequently are overlooked.

A 1.5 mm × 1 mm chip that consumes just 28 microwatts and has a range of up to 21 m has potential for manufacturing applications.

Automating two mills in a six-machine cell, we could turn around his inconsistent output.

The challenge for this ProvenCut recipe was to achieve an acceptable—or even excellent—finish with a tool length-to-diameter ratio of 5-1.

A balanced tool can help tremendously to reduce costs.

Cutting grooves is one of the more challenging turning operations performed by machinists. Many scrapped parts and broken tools later, Christopher Tate shares important lessons about grooving.

CNC programmer looks for ways to produce more parts in less time—and hopefully reduce operating costs for customers long the way.

There are cutting tool considerations when machining molds and other complex components using hybrid manufacturing technology.

Hybrid manufacturing technologies require CAD/CAM software.

With Universal Robots' ActiNav kit, shops can automate without major integration and programming efforts.

Whether heavy, tall, light or small, lifting and moving parts can be a challenge.

In the fifth installment of Metric Matters, Dr. Edumnd Isakov returns to 1948 and the ninth meeting of the General Conference on Weights and Measures.

Want to eliminate grinding burn? Installing a refrigeration system won't do it.

Companies partner against COVID-19 to develop reusable metal filters for respirators.

When two universal turning centers hit their replacement age, this machine shop took it to the next level with twin spindles and triple turrets.

Holding parts for machining on a milling machine can be challenging, especially long, skinny parts.