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Top Shops: Live in Indianapolis
Join us September 2017 for our inaugural Top Shops conference, where industry leaders will present strategies and concepts aimed at growing your machining business.
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FEA for DFM
Shops that offer design for manufacturability advice can reduce customers’ machining cost and complexity. This shop leverages finite element analysis as part of its sophisticated DFM efforts, and this also helps in its efforts to establish long-term relationships with its customers’ engineers.
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Top Shops Benchmarking: Providing Direction, Gaging Performance
Top Shops benchmarking data helps guide shops’ improvement efforts and enables them to gage where they rank among industry-leading machining businesses.
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Threading Options for Hard Materials
Here are three approaches to threading hardened components.
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Video: Building Your Business Through Benchmarking
Learn how this shop leverages the Top Shops program to build its business, boost company morale and better direct its improvement efforts.
WatchRetired Machinists in a Contingency Staffing Role?
Temporary hiring of retired machinists can enable shops to quickly and easily change capacity when business ebbs and flows.
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Jenoptik Automotive Opens New Michigan Technology Campus
This 100,000-square-foot facility will be devoted to the production and testing of the company’s automated laser-cutting and gaging solutions for the North American automotive industry.
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Video: What’s Low-Frequency-Vibration Turning?
Oscillating Z-axis tool motion combined with brief bits of intentional air cutting enables effective chip control and improved tool life on Swiss-type lathes.
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Making Mountains out of Mold Steel—Literally
When graphite molds wouldn’t cut it for a manufacturer of hand-blown drinking glasses, this shop machined more durable stainless steel molds to create the famous mountainous shapes that emerge from the bottom of its customer’s nifty drinkware.
Read MoreA Common Workforce Problem That We Share
The challenges we face finding writing editors are similar to those you face finding skilled machinists and machine operators.
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There Are Benefits to Being Social
Social media is becoming more popular for shops to market their business. It’s also enabling me to find shops to profile in our magazine.
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Turret Added to Five-Axis Bar-Fed Milling Machine
This bar-fed mill features a nine-station turret in addition to a five-axis milling spindle. That way, turning can be performed on the bar while the milling spindle performs backworking on a parted-off workpiece.
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