Cutting fluids are usually underappreciated and often abused. Here are 19-plus hacks to keep them fresh, effective and in the machine longer.

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.

To stay competitive in tomorrow’s workplace, learning how to operate, set up and program robots is essential. Here’s how to get the training you need.

Osborn’s Honey Badger Double Stringer Bead Brush essentially melds two brushes into a single wheel, enabling it to clean both sides of a weld at the same time and providing twice the life span and cutting force of previous models.

Many machine shops, especially those that have adopted robotic equipment tending, have turned to automated measurement technology as the surest way to avoid scrapping workpieces.

Castrol SmartControl measures metalworking fluid conditions from pH levels to concentration and temperature to help customers achieve peak cutting tool performance.

For machinists drilling holes into oblique or curved surfaces, Guhring’s RT 100 FB can replace as many as three tool changes and setups required with other tools.

There’s more to choosing the best end mill than its price tag and availability.

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

Some parts of electric vehicle production require a different toolbox than the building of their gasoline-powered predecessors. Kennametal has tools for all of them—including custom models created with 3D printing technology.