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12 New Ideas for Machining, Tooling, Programming, and Machine Shop Operations

March 23, 2016
For forward-thinking machine shops, here are 12 ideas we discovered this week to make machine programming tooling, machining, and shop operations more effective and productive.

If you operate a machine shop or a manufacturing operation that is focused on machining — and all the surrounding process technologies like automation, CAM programming, tool design and selection — you face a steady flow of new technology and product releases, updates and improvements intended to address the large and small, general and arcane details that concern machine operators, programmers and shop owners and managers. Here’s a list of the new ideas for setting up, cutting, turning, grinding, inspecting, storing parts and tools, and so on …  that caught our attention this week.

About the Author

Robert Brooks | Content Director

Robert Brooks has been a business-to-business reporter, writer, editor, and columnist for more than 20 years, specializing in the primary metal and basic manufacturing industries.