American Machinist Weekly Update

Machining Plastic Parts – and the Parts for Molding Them

Wittmann Battenfeld recently added a new mill/turn machine to produce plastic rotating machine components.

The Common Sense Guide to Digital Transformation

This exclusive eBook covers the vital tactics, tips and considerations needed to move your digital strategy into operation.

3 Scenarios for Lights‐Out Automation in Post‐Covid Manufacturing

Machine shops and other manufacturers must adopt technology‐enabled strategies to support social distancing and related safer‐at‐work practices… and automation can provide a solution to labor capacity constraints.

Quick Tips for Saving Money on Cross-Hole Deburring

Even with the best equipment on hand, some defects can be challenging to remove — even more so if you’re trying to be cost-efficient.

When implemented correctly and leveraged by a well-trained team, Condition-Based Maintenance can increase system reliability and productivity, and decrease maintenance costs. That means it has the potential to increase return on investment.

Three Questions Shape Every Marketing Plan

Organizations that communicate clearly have a detailed, up-to-the-moment understanding of their challenges and opportunities, and what needs to change.

Global Steel Output Growing Slowly

Raw steel output is showing significant year-over-year gains as 2021 progresses, tonnages much higher than the pandemic-tainted results of last year, but the monthly are more reflective of current industrial and construction demand.

Boeing Eyeing Higher Production Rate for 737 MAX

The jet-builder has targeted a new monthly output for its top-selling aircraft, but an even higher rate is hoped for by late 2022, a published report says.

Improved Universal Tool Measuring Machine

For cutting-tool manufacturers and users, inspection of complex tool geometries is improved with a sturdier system base, temperature-resistant housing, more ergonomically attuned design, and other enhancements.

New End Mills for Aerospace Machining

Micro-grain, solid-carbide end mills are available in four series, for machining materials like Inconel/nickel alloys titanium alloys, and stainless steels.

High-Precision Touch Probe for Grinders, Lathes

For in-process workpiece measurement this probe achieves reproducibility at increased probing speeds, and the inherent low probing force is effective for delicate workpieces.