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One-Shot Wonder

Ultra-sensitive honing machine helps a rifle barrel maker achieve superior bore roundness and smoothness Fred Feddersen shows off a part presence sensing system he devised for his new gun drilling...

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The Attraction of Magnetic Filtration

New option for cleaning industrial coolant or oil systems is efficient, economical, and environmentally sound A Micromag filter installed. It’s the basic model magnetic filtration system available in...

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Set the Standard. Then, Surpass It

Mercury Marine is turning and hobbing on the same machine, continuing a long practice of technical innovation and maintaining its standards for product quality and durability. A sea of completed...

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Programming Offline, and In the Groove

Victaulic leverages evolving CAD/CAM technology to expedite R&D and tooling production for cast pipe products This Victaulic coupling is made with an advanced groove system technology that...

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Marking Time, the Swiss Way

Studer AG records 100 years of cylindrical grinding expertise The company founder, Fritz Studer, shows one of his earliest designs for a cylindrical grinding machine. The Fritz Studer AG manufacturing...

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Hydraulic Workholding Yields High Accuracy

Automotive supplier slashes set-up times, and still hits targets. Southland CNC in Cornelia, Ga., is a Tier Two supplier of automotive components to domestic and transplant automakers — primarily...

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High-Performance Cutting of Hard Aero-Alloys

Boeing updating HMCs for large-part machining with high-torque spindle MAG's HMC 1600 machining center met all of Boeing’s requirements in terms of power, stiffness, and vibration damping while...

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Going From Part to Art

Shop realizes sculptors concepts with GibbsCAM Blue Chip Engineering, a Minnesota job shop, recently engineered and machined a mobile sculpture that has been presented as part of the award package for...

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Out-of-This-World Accuracy for Precision Milling

Machining center produces one-off diffraction gratings for remote sensing instruments used with telescopes and other research instruments There is a cosmic irony to the machining activity in the...

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Benchmarking OEE, One Industrial Sector at a Time

Three factors determine excellence Effort underway to benchmark manufacturing equipment effectiveness Gauging sectors’ performance OEE stands for “Overall Equipment Effectiveness” and is an important...

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One-Shot Wonder

Ultra-sensitive honing machine helps a rifle barrel maker achieve superior bore roundness and smoothness Fred Feddersen shows off a part presence sensing system he devised for his new gun drilling...

View Article

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The Attraction of Magnetic Filtration

New option for cleaning industrial coolant or oil systems is efficient, economical, and environmentally sound A Micromag filter installed. It’s the basic model magnetic filtration system available in...

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Set the Standard. Then, Surpass It

Mercury Marine is turning and hobbing on the same machine, continuing a long practice of technical innovation and maintaining its standards for product quality and durability. A sea of completed...

View Article


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Programming Offline, and In the Groove

Victaulic leverages evolving CAD/CAM technology to expedite R&D and tooling production for cast pipe products This Victaulic coupling is made with an advanced groove system technology that...

View Article

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Marking Time, the Swiss Way

Studer AG records 100 years of cylindrical grinding expertise The company founder, Fritz Studer, shows one of his earliest designs for a cylindrical grinding machine. The Fritz Studer AG manufacturing...

View Article


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Hydraulic Workholding Yields High Accuracy

Automotive supplier slashes set-up times, and still hits targets. Southland CNC in Cornelia, Ga., is a Tier Two supplier of automotive components to domestic and transplant automakers — primarily...

View Article

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High-Performance Cutting of Hard Aero-Alloys

Boeing updating HMCs for large-part machining with high-torque spindle MAG's HMC 1600 machining center met all of Boeing’s requirements in terms of power, stiffness, and vibration damping while...

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Going From Part to Art

Shop realizes sculptors concepts with GibbsCAM Blue Chip Engineering, a Minnesota job shop, recently engineered and machined a mobile sculpture that has been presented as part of the award package for...

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Out-of-This-World Accuracy for Precision Milling

Machining center produces one-off diffraction gratings for remote sensing instruments used with telescopes and other research instruments There is a cosmic irony to the machining activity in the...

View Article

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Clik here to view.

Benchmarking OEE, One Industrial Sector at a Time

Three factors determine excellence Effort underway to benchmark manufacturing equipment effectiveness Gauging sectors’ performance OEE stands for “Overall Equipment Effectiveness” and is an important...

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