Move over mild steel. Get lost, gray cast iron. Thanks to the surge in electric vehicle sales, machinists can look forward to tackling tougher, stronger alternatives.
Most machine shops need outside expertise to overcome obstacles to modernization, from insufficient institutional know-how to a shortage of cash for equipment upgrades. The Manufacturing Extension Partnership can help.
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.
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.
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