October 2025 Issue
October 2025
Digital Edition
Features
Featured articles from the October 2025 issue of Modern Machine Shop
Inside the Top Shops Program: How Benchmarking Identifies Industry Leaders
Discrete parts manufacturing is defined by complexity and tight margins. The 2025 Top Shops honorees show how leading shops turn those pressures into strengths, using technology, culture and strategy to compete. Join them in Charlotte, North Carolina, this November to see what the top 20% are doing differently.
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A Workforce Model Just in Time for Manufacturing Day: A Student Tech Center in “Rocket City”
As U.S. manufacturing jobs decline, Huntsville’s new Center for Technology shows how industry partnerships, CNC labs and Toyota funding are shaping a pipeline of skilled machinists and technicians.
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Gear Surface Texture Is More Important Than Ever
The interactions of gear surfaces are becoming increasingly important in applications such as automotive electric motor drive systems and aircraft turbines.
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How I Made It: Harry Moser
Harry Moser has seen manufacturing flourish and contract in the U.S. over a career that has lasted over 50 years. Now, he’s part of the vanguard reshoring manufacturing in the U.S. Find out one simple change he believes could bring 1,000,000 manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. in the latest installment of How I Made It.
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Finding the Human Connections in Human Resources
By working with its employees and its community, Win-Tech has found unexpected opportunities for employee retention and recruitment.
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Finding the Right Balance Between Productivity and Stability
Shop upgrades can swamp a process with change and widen the potential for chaos. To maintain stability, put a frame around your processes so your shop can keep solid wins without living on edge.
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Implement Pallet Changers With a Customer-Centric Approach
Integrating pallet changers on the shop floor can have significant impact on part quality, service, price and on-time delivery.
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Vertical Thinking: Strategies That Pay Off in Precision Manufacturing
How Marathon Precision’s mix of vertical integration, lights-out automation and cultural investment earned it a 2025 Top Shops Award for Business Strategies
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How to Succeed as a Small Swiss Shop: Top Shops 2025
Can small shops succeed with advanced machine tools and software? If so, how do they do it? Read on to learn the strategies that have helped Midway Swiss Turn, our 2025 Top Shops Honoree in Shopfloor Practices, thrive.
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Metalworking Index Inches up to 49.0 in August
The GBI: Metalworking continues to hover just below expansion, but shops are cautiously optimistic.
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