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Celebrating America’s Love Affair with Machining
By Alan R. Earls The American Precision Museum is headquartered in a former armory that helped perfect the manufacture of interchangeable parts. Its collections showcase two centuries of American machining [...]
Origins: Da Vinci’s Machines
By Alan Earls In this article, we look at Leonardo Da Vinci’s sketches of proto-machine tools, including lathes and screw machines, which he conceived hundreds of years before they were [...]
The Risks and Rewards of Offshoring for Smaller Manufacturers
Responding to customer demands Globalization. Whether you hate it or not, it’s dramatically changed the way business in the United States and elsewhere is done. Initially, only Fortune 500 companies [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
How it Works – CSI Machine Shop
By Barbara Donohue Today’s Machining World Archives December 2008 What happened? When parts break, an analytical lab can do the detective work to find out why. Sometimes machined parts present [...]
3-D Thinking: An interview with Larry Rhoades
By Lloyd Graff Today’s Machining World Archives December 2006 Volume 2 Issue 12 LG: We are talking with Larry Rhoades, Ex One’s CEO. Larry, when did you get the idea [...]
An Interview with Jack Schwietert of V-S Industries
Today’s Machining World Archives October 2006 Volume 02 Issue 10 Lloyd Graff: We’re with Jack Schwietert of V-S Industries to talk about manufacturing in Mexico. Jack, when was the [...]
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 [...]