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Where Manual Turning is as Valuable as CNC: Top Shops 2025
This year’s Top Shops Honoree in Machining Technology recently invested in both a flexible manufacturing system and a new manual turning machine. But why? Discover how both fit the shop’s success strategy in this article.
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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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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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Winning More than Prizes Through Manufacturing Competitions
Successfully overhauling its manufacturing competition has enabled the Northern Utah NTMA and its members to make more headway in other recruitment methods, too. But the most valuable lesson came from the students themselves.
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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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CAM Copilots and the Next Digital Shift in American Machining
As AI reshapes programming and automation, Mastercam is betting on a future where human expertise and intelligent software evolve together on the shop floor. A conversation with Mastercam President Russ Bukowski.
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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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Machined Part Geometry Measurement
Uncertain about uncertainty? Having trouble remembering the difference between accuracy and precision? Read on to review key metrology terms relevant to the ISO Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (ISO GUM).
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Video Tour: Inside the American Precision Museum
Where did precision manufacturing begin in the U.S.? What led to it, and how has it changed? Join us on this tour of the American Precision Museum, where Executive Director Steve Dalessio tells us the story of precision manufacturing’s birth — right from the place where it happened.
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Making Machine Monitoring Matter
After seven years of inconsistent use, Pindel Global Precision needed to rethink how it used machine monitoring. From there, one change led to a 35% increase in utilization on its Swiss-type machines in three months.
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How I Made It: Montez King
From high schooler pushing a broom on a shop floor to executive director of the National Institute of Metalworking Standards (NIMS), a series of bold decisions have shaped Montez King’s career path.
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Measuring Tighter Tolerances With a 3-Point Precision Bore Gage
For lower volumes and a wide variety of bore checking, three-point (or tri-bore) gages offer a high-precision, cost-effective solution.
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