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Digital Twin Provides Real-Time Feedback on Part Quality
By gathering data directly from the sensors of the CNC machine, the digital twin offered by Gemineering can identify whether a part is in tolerance and even identify the moment in the toolpath when a part fails to achieve tolerance.
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AMRs Are Moving Into Manufacturing: Considerations for Implementation
AMRs can provide a flexible, easy-to-use automation platform so long as manufacturers choose a suitable task and prepare their facilities.
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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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TIMTOS 2025: Taiwan’s Machine Tool Industry Embraces Technology to Meet Global Demands
Digital technologies such as AI, AR/VR and digital twins, along with customized machine tools and turnkey production systems are helping the Taiwanese machine tool industry quickly respond to changes in the global economy.
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- Can U.S. Manufacturing Beat Trade Volatility? Lessons from Tormach's Global Strategy
- Tips for Ensuring the Performance of a Surface Finish Measuring System
- 3 Machine Options to Aid Automation
- One Machine Shop's Unlikely Edge: Generosity, Creativity and Vertical Integration
- Turning the Corner on Virtual Machining and Simulation
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- Why We Ask Machine Shop Leaders to Speak at TASC – The Automated Shop Conference
- When to Use 3+2 Versus Full Five-Axis for Finishing Operations
- Automating Double-Flank Gear Testing
- 5 Ways CNC Job Shops Can Gain Visibility and Influence in the Industry
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4 Manufacturing Trends That Cannot Be Ignored
The next five years will present their own unique set of challenges, and shops can alleviate them by embracing these technologies and trends.
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Marathon Precision’s Engineering Playground: One Shop’s Secret to Sustaining High Tech, Low-Volume and High Morale
Half an airplane on the wall, a ten-foot metal dragon, and a full-blown recording studio might not scream “manufacturing efficiency,” yet Marathon Precision proves otherwise. Here’s how forging, complex CNC operations and staff-driven creative projects combine to fuel the shop’s productivity and profitability.
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How I Made It: Jared Doerfler
Jared Doerfler quit his comfortable job and taught himself CNC machining to launch his boutique putter company in small-town Iowa. With zero prior machining experience, Doerfler poured his life savings into a dream — crafting high-quality, American-made golf putters in his own machine shop. A story of risk, resilience and turning passion into reality.
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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 6: Why, and How, Hardinge is Reshoring Machine Tool Production
In this episode of Made in the USA, several executives and senior staff at Hardinge give their first-person account of how they formulated the plan to shift the manufacturing of its milling and turning product lines from its Taiwan plant to its plant in Elmira, New York, the major challenges they encountered and the rewards that made it worth the effort.
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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 4: A Measured Approach
The L.S. Starrett Co. has been manufacturing precision measurement tools in Athol, Massachusetts, since 1880. Attention to U.S. manufacturing often focuses on reshoring manufacturing from other countries, but Starrett never left. The facility in Athol employs hundreds and produces thousands of tools that remain vital for measurement in machining and other fields.
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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 3: The Robots Come Home
The latest episode “Made in the USA” podcast explores a company that uses collaborative robots, one of the key tools helping US machine shops and other manufacturers compete with lower cost countries by automating production.
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Kaiser Threading Inserts Cut in Wide Range of Applications
The Thinbit Mini Groove ‘N Turn Acme threading inserts can be used to cut centralizing or stub profiles by overcutting. They can be used for internal Acme threads on parts with bore diameters of 0.325" and larger.
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Mastercam Appoints Company President
Acting as the interim president since December 2024, Russ Bukowski has been chosen to lead the company through its next phase of growth and expansion.
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SMW Connection Kit Enables Fast Power-to-Manual Chuck Conversion
The Manual Jack connection kit is compatible with stationary milling machines, five-axis machines and mill-turn machines, making it well suited for multipallet systems that require versatility and efficiency.
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Emuge-Franken Taps Feature Universal Threading Geometry
The MultiTap NPT/NPTF pipe taps feature a specialized, shortened projection length when compared to traditional ANSI standard taper taps, decreasing cycle time and increasing tool life.
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Walter Milling Cutters Provide High-Quality Surface Finishes
Eastec 2025: The MP270, MP271 and MP470 milling tools are designed to reduce cutting forces and minimize machining vibrations due to their optimized geometries.
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Sandvik Coromant Drill System Optimizes Performance
Sandvik Coromant’s CoroDrill DE10 eliminates the need for a pilot hole to guide the drill into place, enabling both tool inventory and cycle times to be significantly reduced in short-hole drilling.
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