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The Five-Axis Shopping List You Meant to Make
Machining centers from Mitsui Seiki USA, DN Solutions, Hurco, Kitamura, Methods Machine Tools, Mazak and Fives, collected in one guide so you can plan an efficient route.
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From Preform to Finished Part: Additive Closes the Loop at IMTS 2026
New metal platforms from EOS and Mastrex, large-format printing from Phillips Corp., a validated end-to-end workflow from Axtra3D and DN Solutions' AM2CNC show additive moving into the production stream.
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Nothing Beats (Multiple) Live Machining Demonstrations
See SW North America’s live CNC machining, manufacturing automation and cobot demonstrations to discover how flexible machining systems and intelligent automation can help improve throughput and increase process reliability.
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Collet Wrenches and Automation Conversations
Be among the first 50 daily visitors to Lexair’s booth for a practical giveaway — and learn how to get more from your lathe while you’re there.
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Kitamura Makes Its Booth an Automation Zone at IMTS 2026
Kitamura turns its booth into an automation zone, debuting two five-axis machines built for confident, unattended production.
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Methods Machine Tools Debuts Four New Innovations
IMTS 2026: Approaching its 70th year in business, Methods Machine Tools is debuting four new machining solutions.
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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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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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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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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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He Built a Machine Shop on a Working Cattle Farm (Video)
Jeff Lewis has spent his entire life on 380 acres in Cox's Creek, Kentucky — farming it, raising a family on it, and building a precision CNC shop that now machines die inserts for major automotive OEMs. This is how all three things ended up in the same place.
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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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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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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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Trak Machine Tools Demonstrates Accessible Advanced Technology
IMTS 2026: Trak Machine Tools is hosting a range of live demonstrations of its machine tool solutions at its booth, plus a Tuesday press event highlighting its collaboration with Siemens.
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Haimer Brings the Tool Room of the Future
Haimer’s booth replaces traditional standalone product demonstrations with a guided experience connecting tooling, data and automation.
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DN Solutions Showcases a Complete Solution Lineup
Additive, automation, five-axis, large-format work — DN Solutions is showcasing machines with these capabilities and more at its IMTS booth.
Read MoreInnse-Berardi, Ingersoll Launch Machining Platform for Large Structural Aluminum Components
IMTS 2026: Innse-Berardi and Ingersoll Machine Tools are launching the IBPMax S, a fully integrated machining platform for producing large structural aluminum components in the aerospace sector.
Read MoreHow Fives HPM is Driving Efficiency for Large Part Production
IMTS 2026: Fives High Precision Machines is presenting its portfolio of machining solutions for large part production under a single unified identity.
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A Different Flavor of Five-Axis Machining
Did you know you could perform five-axis machining on a rotary transfer machine?
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Select Machining Technologies Simplifies Complex, Large-Format Processes
Four large machine tools with multiprocess capabilities headline Select Machining Technologies’ booth, while interactive exhibits demonstrate additional processes.
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For Marubeni Citizen-Cincom, Tooling Takes Center Stage
Marubeni Citizen-Cincom’s tooling and accessory workshop offers a chance to learn more about ancillary devices that can boost machining efficiency and capability.
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MC Machinery Systems Lights Up the Aisle
MC Machinery Systems showcases wire and sinker EDM, additive manufacturing and automation technology, including its new MG Series wire EDM.
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A New Angle on Tool Changes
On this large turn-mill, cutters are exchanged automatically through the machine’s standard tool magazine on angle heads used for internal machining of long parts.
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Index Shrinks the Window to Profitability
New machine technologies support shops adopting the “Every Job Faster” mindset.
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An American Eagle Takes Shape at Okuma's IMTS 2026 Booth
Okuma’s booth features a live metalcutting demonstration that is sure to stop foot traffic.
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