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How it Works – Developing a Good Memory: Nitinol Shape Memory Alloy
It’s expensive and hard to machine, but Nitinol is perfect for applications that require one or more of its special qualities: superelasticity, shape memory, biocompatibility and fatigue resistance. A very [...]
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. [...]
Finding a Brand in Your Machine Shop
Cathy Bothe was knitting a sweater for her grandson Jack in her Kenosha, Wisconsin, home on a Sunday night in 2006, and in her words, “bitching about these crappy Chinese [...]
How It Works – Laser Marking
By Barbara Donohue Direct Part Marking (DPM) with a laser offers a way to permanently identify parts for tracking, tracing and control. In medical, military, aerospace and other applications where [...]
Lloyd Graff interviews Stan Youtt of Ranor, Inc.
Stan Youtt is CEO of Ranor, Inc., the primary subsidiary of TechPrecision Corporation, a publicly traded contract machining firm. They work in high-tech industries such as solar, nuclear and medical. [...]
Electric Cars – How far will they go?
by Paul Eisenstein A New Kind of Car Just days before the White House giveaway, in early August, Nissan Motor Co. CEO Carlos Ghosn grabbed the spotlight in Yokohama, Japan. [...]
Turning Hardship Into Hope
By Emily Halgrimson Today’s Machining World Archives January 2009 Volume 05 Issue 03 A St. Louis program focuses on manufacturing’s thirst for skilled CNC machine operators to elevate hard-to-place workers. [...]
The Intersection Of Art and Connecting Mechanics
By Robert Strauss Today’s Machining Archives August 2007 Volume 03 Issue 08 Fernando Orellana’s father was a civil engineer and Fernando, when he was growing up, liked art. There seemed [...]
The Eclectic Style of Jeff Begg
By Lloyd Graff Todays Machining World Archives May 2007 Volume 03 Issue 05 When you enter a machining firm which cuts millions of pounds of brass bar each year, you [...]
An Interview with DuPage Machine Products President, Dave Knuepfer
By Lloyd Graff Todays Machining World July 2006 Volume 02 Issue 06 Dave, do you consider DuPage Machine Products a job shop? We’re still a traditional job shop. We run [...]