May 2003 Issue

May 2003

Cover Story

Securing A New Process

A Minnesota manufacturer of precision parts boosts productivity by expanding its workholding capacity.

Features

Featured articles from the May 2003 issue of Modern Machine Shop

Turn/Mill 15 May 2003

Prototyping Productivity

A manufacturer of hermetic compressors proves out a new strategy based on multi-process machining.

1 May 2003

Wireless Technology Enhances Data Collection

Wireless devices allow shop personnel to communicate with the Internet and other computer networks without being physically attached by cables. This freedom makes shopfloor data collection more efficient.

1 May 2003

Optimize Your Web Site-For Manufacturing

Optimization is a term commonly used to describe modifications and maintenance that result in improved performance or higher search engine ranking. Similarly, there are unique features that manufacturing-based Web sites can focus on to optimize their marketing effectiveness in serving today's research-minded manufacturing prospects.

Holemaking 15 May 2003

Drilling Dry With A Heat Pipe

It's widely known that hole making is, by a significant margin, the most frequently performed process among metalworking operations. It's also among the most difficult operations to control from a thermal perspective.

1 May 2003

Connecting Your Legacy CNC Machine Tool To The Internet

It's a great idea with lots of promise, but the technical difficulties with existing CNC units are easy to underestimate in a climate of unrealistic enthusiasm. Two insiders share their opinions about the subject.

Aerospace 15 May 2003

The Measure Of Success

For this small job shop, measuring and controlling everything are the keys to lean—very lean—manufacturing. Yet its management style is surprisingly open and trusting.