Articles

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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Five-Axis

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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Turning Machines

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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Economics

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

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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Automation

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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Automation

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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Measurement

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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