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What Is CNC Machining?

CNC machines create parts from just about any material imaginable. Learn more here.

5 Machine Tool Measurements You Should Know

If you’ve worked with machine tools before, you’ve likely heard the terms coaxiality, runout, cylindricity, roundness, and total runout, but do you know what each means? In this post we will lay out each of these terms so that you know what each means and so you are able to grasp the difference between them, […]

The 10 largest machine tools in the world

Are you interested in machine tools? Then you must not miss the 10 largest machine tools in the world. Have a look at our gallery.

The Ultimate Power Tool Quiz

So, you think you know your power tools? You would never confuse a disc sander with a random orbit sander, right? Show your stuff. Read our descriptions of these power tools and see if you can figure out what we're talking about.

Meet Chatbot, and Experience Machine Tool Humanization

The Porta Multicenter Chatbot is one of the first applications for an interactive dialog between a person and a machine tool.

Alignment laser accelerates machine tool assembly

Alignment laser accelerates machine tool assemblyAuthorThe ultimate accuracy and reliability of a machine tool depends in no small degree on the alignment checking during its assembly. For machine tools produced in high volumes, the efficiency of the alignment checking process is paramount. Seeking an alternative to traditional error measurement techniques, Hurco Manufacturing Ltd. (Hurco) chose Renishaw’s XK10 alignment laser system to increase both precision…

How Machine Tool Dynamics Could Become a U.S. Supply Chain Strategy

An effort being overseen by the U.S. Department of Energy involves a deceptively simple machine-tool test designed to radically boost American manufacturing.

Composites Improve Machine Tool Structures

Composites provide the stability and rigidity machine tools need to quickly make accurate parts.

Precision Machining Metals and Plastics since 1939.

CNC Machines: In The Beginning / Is Your Wood Shop Ready?

CNC routers are becoming as commonplace as sliding tablesaws in the modern woodshop, but woodworkers should consider whether or not the investment will pay off.

Create Apache Spark machine learning pipeline

Use the Apache Spark machine learning library to create data pipelines in Azure HDInsight.

Walk-Up Metrology Strolls into Machine Shops

There are many times when a machinist, while cutting a few parts or getting ready for an initial run, needs to check a few parts or a few critical features. Surfaces need to be spot checked, roundness or concentricity confirmed. Sometimes a hand gage will work, but with parts increasing in complexity and schedules getting …

This Machine Learning Tool Can Translate English Sentences Into Computer Code

OpenAI resarchers have developed a unique machine learning tool that can seamlessly translate the English language into computer codes.

Software tracks truth on the manufacturing shop floor

Manufacturing execution systems manage schedules based not aboutassumptions on available capacity, but on data gathered directlyfrom manufacturing equipment.

New Tech Tools for the Service Technician’s Tool Belt

A review of 5 useful new tech tools coming soon to a service van near you Technology continues to prove itself as a necessity in our day to day lives. Living in a society that relies heavily on tech toys, … Continue reading →

SwRI is developing machine vision tool to improve military medical training

Southwest Research Institute is developing a machine vision tool to help the U.S. Department of Defense assess the biomechanical movements of military medical personnel during training exercises.