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In The Spirit Of The Season
This time of year is filled with messages—messages about peace, love, belief and family. Of course, every season has its holidays and commemorations, each with its own meaning or message. This cycle is part of our cultural heritage and communal identity. “A Machinist’s Holiday” delivers a similar message—that the metalworking industry is worthy of honor and celebration, even if it’s just in our hearts. Read More
Featured Event
PDx/amerimold
PDx/amerimold is a new trade show that aims to bridge the gap between the industrial design community, the manufacturing community and original equipment manufacturers. Taking place next May in Cincinnati, Ohio, the show and technical conference will enable attendees to learn about advances in tooling, mold making, and product design and development. Visit www.pdx-amerimold.com for more information.
Inbox Insight
Save Money! Cut Costs! Maximize Profits!
Every shop and plant is urgently looking for ways to cope with the current economic pressures. The sales manager at Travers Tool has compiled 10 tips and pieces of advice for maximizing profits in any economic environment. John Belzer, president of TCI Precision Metals, shows how using machine-ready blanks can create cost savings. He has the figures to back up his claim. If you do wire EDM, you might be losing big money by consuming more wire then you need. Makino shows how several shops have reduced wire usage with its DUO series of wire machines.
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Shop Solution
Putting Five-Axis Capability On The Table
C&A Tool, in Churubusco, Indiana, is a remarkably diverse manufacturing company that manages to do just about every type of machining and production well—and profitably. For example, its Auburn, Indiana facility produces orthopedic spinal implants. This plant is using a three-axis mill with a rotary table to achieve the same accuracy and productivity that would be available with a much more costly five-axis machine. Read More
New On MMS Online
Aerospace Expertise For The Asking
Aerospace machine tool supplier MAG offers expertise not just on machine-tool technology, but also on the machining process challenges related to aircraft parts. A team from MAG fields your aerospace machining questions in MMS Online’s Aerospace Machining Zone. Just click on “Submit A Question.”
Ask them your questions on chatter, vibration, deflection, sizing, fixture design, part programming, tooling and coolant recommendations and other machining challenges.
Our Next Issue
 Cutting Tools
The January issue of Modern Machine Shop looks at cutting tools. The cover story discusses how an aerospace firm overcame tool-related variations on its largest milling machine by confronting the underlying sources of error. The issue also spotlights a treatment for thread-cutting taps that claims to triple the life of these tools. In addition, January’s coverage includes a look at a new CAM strategy that automatically determines how to create holes using the tools already loaded in the machine.
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