Feature Stories
Origins: Da Vinci’s Machines
With Alan Earls Today’s Machining World Archives May 2011 Volume 07 Issue 04 Today’s Machining World’s feature “Origins” tells the stories of how successful technologies, companies and people got [...]
Milling Dollars Baby – Manufacturing Filmmaking Accessories
By Noah Graff Today’s Machining World Archives January/February 2011 Volume 7 Issue 1 Ten minutes into my interview with Jens Bogehegn and Steve Weiss, the co-founders and owners of Zacuto [...]
Birth of an Icon: The Story of WD-40
Today’s Machining World Archives September 2006 Volume 02 Issue 09 As testimonials go, it is hardly the usual. “I spray WD-40 on the hinges of my cooler so I can [...]
America’s Youth Reconsiders Manufacturing
Today’s Machining World Archives June 2011 Volume 07 Issue 05 By Jessica DuLong A highway route marker: “Detroit 75 North.” Smokestacks from a power plant puffing out steam. A blasted-out [...]
Engineers Toy with Real Model Trains
By Robert Strauss Today’s Machining World Archives May 2011 Volume 07 Issue 04 Charlie Smith weaves his Big Joe forklift through his warren of machinery as if he were the [...]
How I Survived the Recession
Interviewed by Noah Graff, Edited by Emily Aniakou Today’s Machining World Archives April 2011 Volume 07 Issue 03 Four companies that are thriving after the recession, and how they are [...]
I Don’t Want You: How the American Visa System Keeps Skilled Workers Out
Today’s Machining World Archives March 2011 Volume 07 Issue 02 By Bridget Mintz Testa Although the nation-wide shortage of workers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (the “STEM” fields) is well-known, [...]
Twenty Four Hours in the Life of Curtis Screw
By Lloyd Graff Gary Pletscher hopped out of his Ford pickup at 5:55 a.m. on November 10thand marched across the Thielman Drive asphalt, anticipating a 13-hour siege of problem-solving amidst [...]
Celebrating America’s Love Affair with Machining
By Alan R. Earls Today’s Machining World Archives November/December 2010 Volume 06 Issue 09 The American Precision Museum is headquartered in a former armory that helped perfect the manufacture of [...]
Manufacturing in Space- It May Be Closer Than You Think
by Douglas Graham Today’s Machining World Archives October 2010 Volume 06 Issue 08 Space is no place for life as we know it, but it may be the ideal manufacturing [...]