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December, 2008

Features

Creative fixturing puts parts in the zone

But be warned, some machines limit how much of the workzone is actually usable.

Tooling & Fixturing Department

Milling cutters for hard-to-cut materials

Improved indexable insert drills

Tough grades for steel and nonferrous machining

Importer of German specialty cutting tools

Boring tool with optoelectronic adjuster

Inserts with new chip breaker

Inserts with laser-made features

Bandsaw blades for high-stress materials

Ring groover for the oil patch

End mills for aluminum

End mills for cutting aluminum

Saw blades for wood, plastic and nonferrous metals

Micro drills for steels

Static clamping system

Applicator of MQL

Edge-prep machine for lateral and OD tools

Compact laser marking unit

Saw Blade edge prep machine

Software & Controls Department

The soft side of performance racing

Why do machine shops need a CAD system?

Is the most popular CAD/CAM package the best?

Automation Department

Shop hits lights-out production target

Machine-tending robot side-by-side

Machine Tools Department

The power of seven

Who's to blame?

Shop stays ahead at every turn

Innovation in Italy

Robust lathes deliver beefy production

Heavy and ridgid turn-mill

Rebuild and revitalize

When twins see double

Consumables and a 120,000-rpm turbine-air spindle

Fritz Studer AG

Lockheed Martin

Flow International Corp

An underground plant sets a new bar for laser cutter manufacturing.

Mazak Optonics building new headquarters in Illinois

Putting its own technology to work

Grinding puts machine tool manufacturer at the top

Shop Operations Department

Machine tool calibration: standards and methods

The importance of new technology

Schenk Intertech, Inc.

Finding your niche

Practical Ideas

Viewpoints

Agenda? The challenging policy changes that lie ahead

Think you’re one of the best shops?