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Mazak Turning Machine Enhances Part Processing Versatility
Mazak Corp. introduces the Quick Turn 450MY multitasking CNC turning center with an extended bed length option for processing extra-long workpieces.
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Axiom Precision Desktop CNC Provides High Power in Small Footprint
Axiom Precision introduces the 2X2 CNC, designed for makers seeking professional-grade power and convenience in a compact footprint.
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Prima Power 3D Laser Cutting Range Supports Versatile Performance
Prima Power introduces the Laser Next Core, offering cost-effective solutions with a compact design for flexible manufacturing environments.
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4+2 Machining Cuts Cycle Times From Days to Minutes
By moving from legacy jig bores and tilt tables to a milling and boring machine, Highland Manufacturing cut cycle times from days to minutes on high-tolerance, large-diameter parts.
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Zimmermann Gantry Milling Machine Enables Modular Flexibility
Zimmermann Inc.’s FZP37 gantry machining center is designed with a modular structure for customizable operating ranges and compatibility with various CNC controls.
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The Value of a Third Turret for Multitasking Machines
A third turret might be the solution to achieve a 50/50 cycle-time balance between a machine’s main and sub-spindles.
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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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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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3 Tips to Accelerate Production on Swiss Lathes with Micro Tools
Low RPM lathes can cause tool breakage and prevent you from achieving proper SFM, but live tooling can provide an economical solution for these problems that can accelerate production.
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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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10 Tips for Dressing Your Grinding Wheel
Dressing a grinding wheel alters surface conditions on ground parts in accordance with the parameters used. But what parameters lead to which outcomes? Arianna Smith of Norton | Saint-Gobain guides us through the options in this article.
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Laser Photonics Laser Cutting System Provides Precision Tolerances
Laser Photonics introduces the STIF-3020 laser cutting solution for sheet metal, improving speed and precision in high-volume metalworking environments.
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Methods Multitasking Platform Enhances High-Mix, Small-Batch Production
Methods Machine Tools Inc.'s Nakamura-Tome NT-Flex provides speed and flexibility for complex high-mix, small-batch production.
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Omax Waterjet Cutting Machines Enhance Performance, Versatility
Hypertherm Associates’ Omax Maxiem X Series JetMachining Centers is designed for high-performance cutting with advanced features and customization options.
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Flex Machine Tools Waterjet System Boosts Cutting Efficiency
Flex Machine Tools’ FlexJet FLX-1365 waterjet system features a four-head cutting head, designed for high-speed precision and customizable configurations.
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Trumpf Laser Welding Technology Provides Tighter Tolerances
Trumpf Inc.’s Brightline Scan for the Trulaser Weld 5000 laser welding machine is designed to improve welding precision and process stability.
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Inside a CNC-Machined Gothic Monastery in Wyoming
An inside look into the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming, who are combining centuries-old Gothic architectural principles with modern CNC machining to build a monastery in the mountains of Wyoming.
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How I Made It: Walter Minehart
The 24-year-old mechanical engineer and machinist just founded his own one-man shop, Minehart Machine, in San Luis Obispo, California.
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Incorporating Automation into EDM
Adding automation to EDM can provide long periods of unattended machining or be used in a closed-loop cell, while EDM control features can automate electrode design and process parameters.
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Multitasking: Where High Requirements Meet High Volumes
Metri-Tech first bought a multitasking machine to handle complicated turning geometries. Two decades later, it uses them for gear cutting, five-axis work and more.
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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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Tracing Domestic Manufacturing’s History at the American Precision Museum
The American Precision Museum connects new generations to the story of domestic precision manufacturing. Find out how it’s bringing new chapters of that story to life.
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