Peter Zelinski

Peter Zelinski Editorial Director

Aerospace

Can Transparency Bring More Efficient Sourcing?

A resource that aims to be free for machine shops asks detailed capability information so parts can be matched to producers, and OEMs can target RFQs to shops that are ready to run the work.

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Cutting Tool Maker Succeeding With 3D Printed Carbide for Oil/Gas and Other Applications

Powders, parts and products are different ways the company is advancing with AM. Carbide and tools are separate areas of success.

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10 Ways Additive Manufacturing Reshapes a Production Facility

Sintavia’s purpose-built facility for powder bed fusion of aircraft components illustrates fundamental ways the plant is different when 3D printing is the operation.

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How This Motorcycle Startup Will Succeed With U.S. Production

Land Moto is the founder’s second motorcycle company. The first time, production was in China. This time, several factors help advance the effort to produce a low-cost bike in the United States. One of these is the way electrification opens doors to suppliers.

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3D Printed Tool for Machining Electric Vehicle Motors: The Cool Parts Show #39

Additive manufacturing achieves a large-diameter cutting tool light enough for fast, precise machining of the motor housing’s stator bore.

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Do Modern CNCs Call for a New Programming Paradigm?

Complex workpieces such as AM parts present demanding toolpath challenges. But meeting the challenges reveals how much precision we’ve had all along — we just need the measurements and methods to use it.

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For Velo3D CEO, the Future of Metal AM Is Large Producers

The growing demand for metal part production via additive manufacturing will be met by producers that start small and massively scale, says Velo3D’s Benny Buller. Thus, AM will follow a different path from other part-making technologies.

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Cutting Tool Inventory: A Big Concern for Small Shops

A job shop might have an amount of money tied up in tooling equal to a significant share of its investment in CNC machines. Here is how one shop owner thinks about tool management.

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10 Characteristics of a Valuable Machine Shop

What is your machining business worth? A recent event focused on machine shop ownership change revealed what machine shop buyers look for in making this evaluation.

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Look Again — Multiprocess Machine Tools Hint at Machine Shop Changes

The acceptance of complex machine tools has measurably increased. Recent articles offer a multifaceted look at multitasking machines.

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MMS Is Back on the Shop Floor, But There Are Differences

Modern Machine Shop editors visit machining facilities to report stories. We are now more mindful than ever that the chance for this visit is a privilege. Meanwhile, what we are there to report has changed.

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OEMs Are Well Equipped to Insource CNC Machining

Many OEMs are better equipped to insource manufacturing than they imagine themselves to be. Utilization data can reveal the capacity that is ready to be used an alternative to supply chains.

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