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Automating the Finishing Touch

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Skilled finishers around the world have used simple cloth buffs, bundled them together and applied a greaseless abrasive compound to make the beautiful textured satin finishes enjoyed on many products, such as home furnishings.

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Best Practices for Selecting Cutting Tools for Your Machine Shop

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Capital Spending to Increase as Machine Shops Seek Productivity

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Thanks to an unstable marketplace, capital spending among machine shops and other metalworking companies has been down for the last several years.

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CASE STUDY: Optimizing the Grind Process to Reduce Takt Times for Aerospace Blade Manufacturer

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The Process Solutions Program or PSP is a unique service started by Norton to help customers achieve optimal productivity by allowing insider access to their team of technical experts. In this particular case, the customer reduced takt time and had overall annual cost savings of $70K.

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Ceramic End Mills Take the Heat in HRSA Machining

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Cutting tool and tooling systems specialist Sandvik Coromant has released two series of ceramic end mills for optimized performance in nickel-based alloys. 

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Cycle Time vs. Takt Time: Why the Differences Matter

There’s more to cycle time than processing time on a machine. See why—and see how it relates to takt time.

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