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Fit, Form and Function: Your Buying Guide for Indexable Turning Tools

Indexable tools make machine setups faster and easier while significantly reducing the downtime associated with tool changes, but choosing the best insert can be tricky. Here’s what you need to know.

Metalworking

Four Opportunities for Industrial Metal-Cutting Operations To Reach Peak Performance

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After years of uncertainty, metal-cutting companies and other industrial manufacturers are gaining confidence about future market prospects. Even with this renewed confidence, industry leaders know that continuous improvement activities can’t be placed on the backburner. Lenox Institute of Technology’s benchmarking study reveals four key sources of frustration for today’s industrial metal-cutting organizations and recommended strategies for attacking each challenge.

Metalworking

From Blue Collar to New Collar: Training Manufacturing Technologists

The rise of Industry 4.0 and the advent of artificial intelligence are overhauling the skillsets needed in manufacturing jobs. Here’s how educators and businesses are taking on the challenge.

Metalworking

From Carbide to Coolant-Through: Deep-Hole Drilling, Simplified

Drilling grows more difficult as hole depths increase, with poor chip evacuation, drill breakage, and undesirable hole quality being the primary causes of failure. Here’s some advice for improving tool life and making drilled holes run true.

Metalworking

Getting a Better Grip: How Workholding Tools Are Adapting to 21st Century Demands

Innovative vises and clamping systems are helping to solve plant-floor efficiency problems and boost productivity.

Machining

Grinding Getting Tougher? Try These 7 Tips to Maximize Your Superabrasives

The metals used in making components of high-tech equipment get tougher every year. These tips on maximizing superabrasives can help.

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