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How Might You Use a Desktop CNC Swiss-Type?
This compact machine could be valuable for education and training purposes as well as low-volume production work that shops might not want to run on their traditional Swiss-types.
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FFG Americas' HMC Supports Flexible, 24/7 Production
The Specht 500 NG HMC supports multiple configurations, including four-axis and full five-axis (B- over A-axis) machining. It features high-performance rotary tables with torque motors and glass scales and an optional pallet changer.
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Emag Universal Grinding Machines Provide Flexible Performance
Emag’s UG Series grinding machines feature direct-drive spindles, swiveling B-axis and FANUC control for production-grade accuracy.
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Omax Waterjet System Simplifies Complex Cuts
The ProtoMax abrasive waterjet system is designed to cut most materials under 1" thick without generating heat-affected zones or altering material properties.
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Zimmermann Five-Axis Portal Milling Machine Support Precise Production
Zimmermann Inc.’s FZU22 gantry mill features a specialized five-axis milling head with 15-kW spindle.
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Agie Charmilles and Mikron Mill Release Limited-Edition Models of Best-Selling Machines
United Machining launches limited-edition wire EDM and milling machines from its Agie Charmilles and Mikron Mill brands.
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Maximizing Milling Operations With the Right Cutter
Selecting milling cutters that are suited to the task at hand can reduce cycle times, improve part quality and save money. Here’s where three milling cutters excel.
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Soft Skills Prove a Sharp Edge in Plastics Manufacturing
East Coast Precision Manufacturing’s uncommon specialties attract many customers — but its prompt, earnest communication strategy is what wins it repeat business.
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View From My Shop: The Challenge of a One-Man Machine Shop
Mason Montalvo took up the challenge of starting his own shop running manual machine tools to produce complex parts.
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Building Machines and Apprenticeships In-House: 5-Axis Live
Universal machines were the main draw of Grob’s 5-Axis Live — though the company’s apprenticeship and support proved equally impressive.
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Swiss-Type Control Uses CNC Data to Improve Efficiency
Advanced controls for Swiss-type CNC lathes uses machine data to prevent tool collisions, saving setup time and scrap costs.
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Modern Bar Feeds Bring New Life to Automatic Swiss Lathes
Cam-actuated Swiss lathes are still the fastest way to process many parts. By adding modern bar feeders, this shop has dramatically improved their utilization with the ability to work unattended, even in a lights-out environment.
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Setting the Stage for Swiss Machining Success: Shop Tour Video
Nine machines, two machinists. What technologies have enabled Midway Swiss Turn to operate at this level of lean staffing? Find out in this shop tour.
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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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3 Trends From PMTS 2025
The 2025 Precision Machining Technology Show provided an excellent look at the variety of machining solutions catering to the U.S. metalworking industry, including a range of automation solutions for turned and milled parts.
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Shop Tour Video: Inside a Family-Owned Machine Shop Specializing in High-Precision Plastics
In this episode of “View From My Shop,” East Coast Precision Manufacturing guides us through their plastics job shop. Learn how this shop has quickly and inexpensively built out its shop floor, as well as how it formed a niche for itself during difficult business conditions.
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Custom Motorcycle Parts Made Here: Video Tour of a Family-Owned CNC Machine Shop
Lee Wimmer invited us to tour his second-generation family-owned machine shop in Perkasie, PA. This video explores the production processes behind precision-machined parts for both Wimmer Custom Cycle and LS Wimmer Machine Co., and shows how ingenuity and determination are still at the heart of American manufacturing. Today, both companies are now managed by Wimmer’s three sons.
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Quick-Change Tool Heads Reduce Setup on Swiss-Type Turning Centers
This new quick-change tooling system enables shops to get more production from their Swiss turning centers through reduced tool setup time and matches the performance of a solid tool.
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Where Micro-Laser Machining Is the Focus
A company that was once a consulting firm has become a successful micro-laser machine shop producing complex parts and features that most traditional CNC shops cannot machine.
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What is Laser Cleaning? How Does it Work? EMAG Experts Explain
Lasers provide the flexibility to clean some areas of a CNC-machined workpiece while leaving others untouched.
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Waterjet Cutting a Titanium Golf Club
Here is a different way to think about the slice in your golf game. This footage comes from a Web site exploring the lighter side of waterjet machining.
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How a Family-Owned Tooling Company Competes with Global Giants (Includes Video)
Not ready to go digital? Consider this: With Siemens NX ecosystem, precision shop D’Andrea cut its programming time by 50% and is able to compete globally—even against industry giants.
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How Precision Blanks Help This Aerospace Shop Build Better Parts
Internal stress in thin metal parts can lead to warped components and scrapped work. Matrix Machine found a better way by sourcing precision-ground blanks from TCI Precision Metals. Here’s how that decision freed up capacity and made critical parts more predictable.
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SpindleSHOT Offers Improved Chip Control and Less Maintenance
High-pressure coolant system is customizable to meet customer needs.
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Additive/Subtractive Hybrid CNC Machine Tools Continue to Make Gains (Includes Video)
The hybrid machine tool is an idea that continues to advance. Two important developments of recent years expand the possibilities for this platform.
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Lean Approach to Automated Machine Tending Delivers Quicker Paths to Success
Almost any shop can automate at least some of its production, even in low-volume, high-mix applications. The key to getting started is finding the simplest solutions that fit your requirements. It helps to work with an automation partner that understands your needs.
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High RPM Spindles: 5 Advantages for 5-axis CNC Machines
Explore five crucial ways equipping 5-axis CNC machines with Air Turbine Spindles® can achieve the speeds necessary to overcome manufacturing challenges.
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Voice Activated Machine Interface Comes to Machine Tools
Voice-enabled virtual assistants are coming to machine tools. Now available on Makino wire EDMs, the ATHENA interface promises to help manufacturers better utilize their equipment, aid less skilled workers and operate more machines with fewer people.
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Voice Control of Machine Tools has Arrived
Voice interface technology has come of age and is now found on a wide variety of products such as phones, tablets, PCs, TV remotes and many other devices. Why not on machine tools as well?
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Wire EDM with a Twist
Wire EDM units that swivel a horizontally guided electrode wire in a CNC-controlled E axis give this shop the workpiece clearance and flexibility to produce complex, high-precision PCD-tipped cutting tools.
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Is AI Ready to Tackle High-Mix Grinding? Interview with GrayMatter Robotics Co-Founder
GrayMatter Robotics co-founder Satyandra Kumar Gupta explains how the company’s AI-powered Scan&Grind system tackles weld blending, surface finishing and gate removal on metal parts — and why embodied intelligence is key to automating grinding in high-mix environments.
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Addressing Manufacturing Challenges with Automation
GrayMatter Robotics’ Physical AI robotic cells for manufacturing offer immediate impact and results.
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ANCA Grinding Machines Optimize Cutting Tool Performance
IMTS 2024: ANCA celebrates 50 years through the introduction of the MicroX Ultra grinding machine and AIMS Connect software, with live demonstrations.
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ANCA Offers Grinding Machine for Manufacturing Cutting Tools
The new MX7 Ultra includes developments in the linear and rotary axis, tuning parameters, as well as several system enhancements and major mechanical changes.
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Digital Demo: People and History Drive Solutions
Bourn & Koch has long provided unique manufacturing solutions. However, the people who work at Bourn & Koch enable the company to deliver value to each partner they work with. From service to assembly to engineering, each step builds on the solution—helping you solve your most challenging manufacturing problems. (Sponsored)
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New Grinding Machine Utilizes Unique Kinematics
A novel grinding machine uses three rotary tables stacked off-center to provide full control over the grinding wheel’s X and Z axis, as well as its angular position, creating an unusual solution to grinding.
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Latest Machines News And Updates
Baileigh Industrial Gear-Head Engine Lathes Boost Part Production
Baileigh Industrial introduces its line of gear-head engine lathes, engineered for built-in safety and designed to increase output in production-driven shops.
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Nagel Deep-Hole Drilling Systems Provide Highly Flexible Performance
Nagel’s customizable deep-hole drilling machines are fully customizable and can be configured either as stand-alone systems or as fully integrated turnkey solutions.
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Hypertherm Plasma Cutting System Boosts Metalcutting Power
Hypertherm Associates’ Powermax33 XP air plasma system is engineered for high-quality cuts, greater capacity and portability.
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Jet Tools Lathe Enhances Safety, Performance
Jet Tools expands its turning lineup with gear-head engine lathes and large-spindle bore lathes designed to provide smooth operation, scalability and built-in safety features.
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Three Ways to Succeed in a New Market
Making parts for a new industry can be profitable but requires a clear plan to smooth the process. Learn from three shops that have thrived since choosing to target additional markets.
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Methods’ CoE Builds Hands-On Foundation for Customer Success
Machine repair threatens to become a lost art. Methods Machine Tools is fighting this entropy with its new Center of Excellence, which is set to provide training on both top-of-the-line and legacy machine tools.
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Five Strategies for Building Your Job Shop's Niche
Staking out a niche can help your job shop win repeat business and steady revenue. Discover how several successful job shops have claimed theirs.
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Building a Profitable Grinding Niche
By building processes for its niche, rather than a general manufacturing approach, Grind All has developed an unusual (yet profitable) value proposition.
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Why Setups Are the Real Bottleneck in High-Mix Machining
In job shops, throughput often lives in the steps between cuts: tooling, offsets, refixturing, programming and training. The March issue features practical ways shops are cutting setup time and variation through multitasking, modular tooling, process stability and more.
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Studer Motion Meeting 2026 Emphasizes Strong Foundations
At its 2026 Motion Meeting, Studer celebrated 50 years of its machine foundations, plus a new inexpensive machine and a thriving apprenticeship program. Read on to learn what machine shops can take away from the event.
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Multitasking Machines Scale Up Setup
Job shops don’t mass produce parts — they mass produce setups. Here’s how Sanks Machining has streamlined setup in its shop.
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High-End Machines Deserve High-End Support: Inside DMG MORI’s Cleveland Facility
Tech Days are only the beginning for DMG MORI’s Cleveland office as its team prepare to provide training and support for customers from Kentucky to western New York.
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