Feature Stories
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Halgrimson Today’s Machining World Archives April 2011 Volume 07 Issue 03 Four companies that are thriving after the recession, and how they [...]
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 [...]