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Better Cutting Tool Production after Fire’s Destruction
A fire destroyed Taurus Tool and Engineering's facility, hindering improvement efforts. In its new facility, the company relies on ANCA tool grinding machines for standardized, streamlined production.
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Honing System Eliminates a Gun Barrel Lapping Operation
Pac-Nor Barreling Inc.'s manual lapping of gun barrels was tedious and time-consuming. Sunnen's HTE honing machine eliminated manual pre-lapping and improved barrel consistency.
Read MoreEDM and Additive Manufacturing Similarities
Like electrical discharge machining, additive offers manufacturers an alternate part-production option. However, conventional machining won’t go away.
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Machine-Tending Robot Hits on Three Automation Trends
A new robotic loading system features a collaborative design, intuitive programming and the ability to be quickly redeployed to other turning centers.
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Welcome Barbara Schulz, Our First European Correspondent
Barbara is new to us, but not new to the industry.
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Automated Tool Clamping, Measurement
This system combines tool presetting with tool clamping to automatically set, measure and clamp tools.
Read MoreBenefits of Being Social
Social media is becoming a more popular marketing tool for shops. It also offers another avenue for us to identify top shops to cover in our magazine.
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Medical Shop Demonstrates How To Manage Risk for ISO
The new ISO 9001:2015 standard emphasizes risk assessment. Medical shops like Protomatic with ISO 13485 certification already manage this.
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Remote Honing Analytics with MTConnect-Compliant Machines
Sunnen offers what it says is the first honing equipment that’s compliant to the MTConnect communication protocol.
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Custom Cutters Quicker
An online quoting service is said to speed and simplify quoting and purchasing of custom cutting tools.
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Top Shops Profile: Mallory Industries
Mallory Industries Inc. was 2016's Top Shops Honors Program winner in the category of human resource.
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Top Shops Benchmarking by the Numbers
The seventh-annual Top Shops benchmarking survey is now live. Here’s helpful information for those who have participated in the past and those who haven’t.
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