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Metalworking

Daily Grind: Your Guide to Using Abrasives Safely

Whether you’re using wheels, disks or paper and pads, abrasives carry a variety of safety hazards. Here’s how to protect your employees.

Metalworking

Digital Takes on Dial in War of the Gauges

Digital gauges may be gaining the upper hand in a decades-long competition with analog metrology equipment. Here’s what you need to know to select the type that will work best for your shop.

Metalworking

Electric Vehicles: Machining in a World Made of (High-Strength) Steels

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.

Modern Machine Shop

Escaping Status Quo: How Machine Shops Can Crush Modernization Barriers

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.

Metalworking

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.

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