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Materials science has opened new possibilities for designers of cars, planes and other products. Metal alloys are now as precisely engineered as they are machined. The result is longer lasting, stronger parts. But with a wider selection of materials comes risk—how can you be sure that one piece of gray metal stock is different than another? Careful warehousing procedures and paperwork only go so far.

Glenn Bridgman describes the difference between his shop’s manual grinders and its newest state-of-the-art CNC ID/OD grinder, a Studer CT960 OD/ID from United Grinding (Miamisburg, OH), as “feel vs. facts.” Bridgman, president of Bridge Tool & Die (Buckley, MI), believes that manual grinding is a somewhat personal operation.

For untold millennia, the power of the sun has provided sustenance to mankind. On a late summer day, as the sun beat down on suburban Chicago, executives at JTEKT Toyoda Americas Corp. celebrated the launch of a new solar energy system that will help power the facility and sustain the environment for the future.

Laser welding is a superior technology for repairing defects in tooling, plastic injection molds, stamping dies, blow molds, turbine blades, and nearly any tooling component made of stainless steel, aluminum, copper alloy, cast iron, and all tool steels.

IMTS to highlight how wide-ranging processes are finding fresh ways to work together.

Parting and grooving operations are everyday occurrences in a typical turning department. Is your shop performing them most effectively?

This week’s Automate trade show in Detroit demonstrated the drive for flexibility on the factory floor.

Machines are designed for ease of use and versatility to fill the gap from the shortage of experienced operators.

How lasers are changing metal cutting.

Shops need both chemical and five-axis laser texturing capabilities to generate patterns that were once considered unattainable.