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CNC Machine Industry News
America's Most Wanted: Skilled Workers
The looming skilled worker shortage is an unwelcome threat to the nation’s manufacturing base that needs to be addressed at multiple levels, from better educating the next generation of factory workers to improving the public’s image of plant work.
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8/29/2010
Cutting Tool Applications, Reaming and Tapping
Article about reamers and taps, types, nomenclature, applications, proper use, issues, and operating options.
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Faster Chipmaking On Low-Power Machines
Across the country, alert shops have already solved the problem in a variety of milling operations – skinning, pocket milling, straight face milling, and even holemaking.
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Backlash vs. Stiffness
What the difference is and why you should care. Backlash and stiffness are both important but have different impacts, and those differences deserve attention.
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Get Ready To Get Training
American manufacturers are having trouble finding highly-skilled workers...the 40-something who has been working in manufacturing job for the last 20 years (yet does not immediately qualify for a high-skill position) might make for a better candidate
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Ingersoll Machine Tools Going Large, Lean, and Green
Ingersoll Machine Tools in Rockford, Ill., is setting up a large multipurpose milling machine capable of processing oversized components, including wind-turbine hubs, gear boxes, upper plates, lower plates, main bearing housings, and nacelles.
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Boring Operations and Machines
Article about boring. Boring, also called internal turning, is used to increase the inside diameter of a hole. However, with internal turning, or boring, the choice of tool is very much restricted by the workpiece's hole diameter and length.
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Makino Claims New 5-Axis Will Change the Way People Think About Machining Titanium
Also reportedly claims these technologies can provide manufacturers with four times the productivity and double the tool life of conventional titanium machining operations.
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