American Machinist Weekly Update

Skills Training and Confidence Building

The Advanced Manufacturing Center at Stark State College gives students the information and ability they will need for careers in CNC programming and machine-tool operating, along with a love of the work they do.

Count on Mitutoyo’s new generation of CRYSTA-Apex V Series of measuring systems to provide the highest levels of accuracy, speed and performance for workpieces of all sizes.

Dealing with Productivity Loss in Maintenance Management

Are you leaking resources due to unorganized work practices? How would you know? How would you correct those problems and improve overall maintenance performance?

Velum protective filter has been manufactured to protect electric & electronic machines in industrial production plants from dust & oily mist. Velum is easy to apply & allows to efficiently & effectively plan the protection of any industrial machine.

EU Machine Tool Orders May Be Recovering

New order totals reported by German and Italian machine tool builders show deep drops in demand during 2Q 2020, but representatives of both groups see signs of hope in their forecasts.

Adapting Machine Shops for Covid-19 Safety

Here are seven tactics for changing workplaces and increasing personnel safety that already are being implements, successfully, to maintain machine shop productivity in the New Normal.

Four Ways to Promote Machine Shop Safety

This is how you can coordinate with your shop managers, safety professionals, workers, and other decisionmakers, to establish a culture of safety at your operation.

Laser Turning for Contactless Processing

The GL.smart turning tool elevates cutting technology with non-contact, wear-free machining for small, rotationally symmetrical precision parts.

AR for Modeling Robotics Installation, Function

An Augmented Reality "viewer" for smartphones and tablets establishes a way to visualize where and how ro-botic automation fits into a manufacturing process.

Entry-Level 5-Axis Universal Machine Technology

New machine technology will allow job shops to maximize spindle utilization, and a modular pallet-storage system will provide highly automated, flexible part machining for multiple machines of different types and set-ups.