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Problems Turning Tiny Parts on CNC Swiss
Dear Shop Doc, We have a CNC Swiss that we use to turn very small precise parts. When a part has several different diameters I notice that when one diameter [...]

An Interview with Master Negotiator Herb Cohen
By Noah Graff For more than three decades, Herb Cohen has been a practicing negotiator, intimately enmeshed in some of the world’s headline dramas, from hostile takeovers to hostage negotiations. [...]

Industry Scuttlebutt
The news that Japan will show a net deficit in trade for 2011 is another signal of a shifting economy that currently favors North American manufacturing. Europe is in a [...]

My Dinner With Newt
I just returned from a long weekend of political-tourism in Charleston, South Carolina. It didn’t start out as a Newt-Mitt chocolate kind of trip, it just happened. My oldest son [...]
One on One with Shoe Repairman Elijah Malik
Elijah Malik, has been in the shoe repair business since 2003. Four years ago he opened his shop, Your Shoe Repair, a full service shoe repair shop in Chicago’s hip [...]

No No No No!
Should I plan as if I am going to live forever, or like I’m living on borrowed time? None of us really knows how long we will be allotted on [...]

Manufacturing Tour In Thailand
Emily Aniakou, Today’s Machining World’s Managing Editor, is currently on a press tour of Thailand’s manufacturing industry. The following are her first impressions. Monday: The tour has been awesome so [...]
Ethics: Drug Testing in the Workplace
Among many hats I wear, I handle human resources for a transmission re-manufacturing facility with around 35 employees, including office staff. Our management asked me to develop a drug testing [...]


