The Value of a Third Turret for Multitasking Machines
A third turret might be the solution to achieve a 50/50 cycle-time balance between a machine’s main and sub-spindles.
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Proactivity Generates Success: Takeaways from Top Shops 2025
What sets a Top Shop apart from other shops? Industry leaders explored this question at the 2025 Top Shops Conference and found a common answer: proactive, intentional purchases and systems planning.
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Metalworking Index Hits Seasonal Slump in November
Consistent with previous years, the GBI: Metalworking reported underperformance in November compared to October.
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Skipping the Dovetail Saves Setup Time for High-End Parts
Relying on crimping and sacrificial frames instead of dovetails cuts operations from Novo Modo’s high-end, high-mix work. What’s more, it supports the shop’s tight features and tighter tolerances.
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Can AI Automate Automation?
New hardware and software releases from Vention’s 2025 Demo Day, including some powered by AI, are designed to make advanced automation more accessible to manufacturers.
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- Strange But True: Odd Things That Happen With CNCs
- Order Of Operations Is Where Geometry Meets Judgement
- An Indicating Snap Gage Primer
- Machining for Downstream Success
- The Strategy Gap: Why U.S. Job Shops Must Close It From the Ground Up
- Measuring Distance With Surface Texture Systems
- Inside the Top Shops Program: How Benchmarking Identifies Industry Leaders
- Finding the Right Balance Between Productivity and Stability
- CAM Copilots and the Next Digital Shift in American Machining
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4+2 Machining Cuts Cycle Times From Days to Minutes
By moving from legacy jig bores and tilt tables to a milling and boring machine, Highland Manufacturing cut cycle times from days to minutes on high-tolerance, large-diameter parts.
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Preventing Spindle Crashes with Digital Twins
With only four machine tools, high-mix shop Novo Modo needed a surefire way to prove out programs and prevent spindle crashes. But when it adopted a CAD/CAM software with digital twin simulation capabilities, it found that its benefits ran even deeper than anticipated.
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How I Made It: Walter Minehart
The 24-year-old mechanical engineer and machinist just founded his own one-man shop, Minehart Machine, in San Luis Obispo, California.
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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 6: Why, and How, Hardinge is Reshoring Machine Tool Production
In this episode of Made in the USA, several executives and senior staff at Hardinge give their first-person account of how they formulated the plan to shift the manufacturing of its milling and turning product lines from its Taiwan plant to its plant in Elmira, New York, the major challenges they encountered and the rewards that made it worth the effort.
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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 4: A Measured Approach
The L.S. Starrett Co. has been manufacturing precision measurement tools in Athol, Massachusetts, since 1880. Attention to U.S. manufacturing often focuses on reshoring manufacturing from other countries, but Starrett never left. The facility in Athol employs hundreds and produces thousands of tools that remain vital for measurement in machining and other fields.
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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 3: The Robots Come Home
The latest episode “Made in the USA” podcast explores a company that uses collaborative robots, one of the key tools helping US machine shops and other manufacturers compete with lower cost countries by automating production.
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Sandvik Coromant Profiling Geometries Provide Process Security
Sandvik Coromant expands its Corocut 2 portfolio with geometries tailored for profiling in demanding materials and for parting-off operations that require greater process reliability and productivity.
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Ceratizit Solid Carbide Drill Extends Tool Life
Ceratizit USA introduces the WTX-Uni and WTX-Deep Uni drill ranges, offering versatile solutions for high-performance drilling across multiple materials with a focus on efficiency and eco-friendliness.
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Tungaloy Coated CBN Grade Boosts High-Speed Cutting Performance
Tungaloy-NTK America Inc. introduces the BM05M coated CBN grade, designed for high-speed continuous cuts with enhanced wear resistance.
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Heule Tool Deburring Solution Enhances Main Bore Processing
Heule Tool introduces the Snap-X line, designed for advanced cross hole deburring of main bores with multiple intersecting bores at varying diameters and angles.
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Cetec ERP AI Tools Automate Back-Office Operations
Cetec ERP LLC introduces Document Scan & Attach and AP Automation tools to streamline paperwork and invoice processing for manufacturers.
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ABB Robotics' AI Assistant Enhances Robot Programming
ABB Robotics introduces the RobotStudio AI Assistant, leveraging generative AI to simplify robot programming and boost productivity for users across industries.
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