How it Works
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 [...]
How it Works – Keeping the Spindles Turning
by Barbara Donohue Today’s Machining World Archives September 2006 Volume 02 Issue 09 Everything wears out eventually, and the spindles in machine tools are no exception. Though many shops could [...]
How It Works – Certified Destruction
Today’s Machining World Archives June 2011 Volume 07 Issue 05 By Barbara Donohue Keeping bad, worn or obsolete parts out of the supply chain. Out-of-spec or obsolete parts may look [...]
How it Works – University Research on Machining
By Barbara Donohue Today’s Machining World Archives May 2011 Volume 07 Issue 04 Metal cutting is alive and well in academia, with research producing both radical new technologies and clever [...]
How it Works – Coatings for Cutting Tools
By Barbara Donohue Today’s Machining World Archives April 2011 Volume 07 Issue 03 The thinnest of thin layers can make a big difference in tool life and performance. In the [...]
How it Works – Don’t Call it “Grinding”
Today’s Machining World Archives March 2011 Volume 07 Issue 02 By Barbara Donohue Creep feed grinding, a high stock removal technology, uses abrasives to cut any material you can think [...]
How it Works – Machining Plastics
By Barbara Donohue Today’s Machining World Archives January/February 2011 Volume 7 Issue 1 Plastics can behave in mysterious ways, but a lot of shops machine them successfully. Machining plastic is [...]
How it Works – Competing Successfully Using Older Equipment
By Barbara Donohue Today’s Machining World Archives November/December 2010 Volume 06 Issue 09 You can do a lot with what you have—and that doesn’t mean just your machines. In these [...]
How it works – Where’s the Steel?
By Barbara Donohue Today’s Machining World Archives September 2010 Volume 06 Issue 07 Composites and graphite require a new way of thinking about machining. You might not normally think of [...]
How it Works – Automated Measurment
By Barbara Donohue Today’s Machining World Archive: May 2010 Vol. 6, Issue 04 Automatic part-measuring technologies can not only verify dimensions, but can collect the data for you and help [...]