Knowledge Center Articles

The Knowledge Center’s monthly series aims to help manufacturers move beyond reactive approaches and make more informed, data-driven decisions across their operations.

In this episode of Tooling Up, host Toni Neary is joined by Uwe Burkardt and Sebastien Granges from Tesa Tech to explore how the TESA-Hite and TESA-Hite Magna height gauges are helping manufacturers bring reference-grade measurement directly onto the shop floor.

A federal heat safety standard could be coming soon. Here’s what employers need to do now to be ready for it.

Secondary containment means different things to different people. The first thing you need is a basic understanding of what secondary containment is. You also need to understand how your secondary containment needs are tied into the specific Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulation or regulations that apply to your facility.

Watch this short video as OSG demonstrates their HY-PRO® CARB VGM3-AL-LN end mill series.

Once temperatures fall below 32 degrees, it's even more critical to prepare for extreme temperatures by wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) designed to keep you warm, dry, and comfortable. This protection only comes when you choose PPE made with high-quality material.

In milling, selecting the proper insert geometry is an important decision because it affects many parameters from stability to surface finish and power consumption.

Calibration is often misunderstood as “just” paperwork, a sticker, or simply adjusting tools. But what if calibration is actually about performance, traceability, and trust in your measurement data? In this episode of MSC Industrial Supply’s How To series, host Jacob Sanchez steps inside Mitutoyo’s calibration lab to uncover what calibration really means.

As data centers scale to support AI, cloud computing, and high-density workloads, the most urgent engineering problem isn’t square footage — it’s heat. Thermal loads have increased dramatically over the past five years, and ventilation systems are now core components of reliability, efficiency, and uptime strategy.

The next time you spread some creamy yellow condiment on your burger, hot dog or sandwich, you’ll be experiencing how Norton products play a role in our daily lives in many surprising ways.

Younger generations are looking for meaning and purpose in their work. They can find those qualities in manufacturing, if you show them.

The wrong time to learn you’re out of absorbents or PPE is when you have a spill. Download and use the Spill Response Preparedness Checklist to make sure you have the right items in the correct quantities for proper spill response at your facility.