Columns

Ethics: New Employee? July 2010
Afterthought: Nothing to fear July 2010
“Made in Mexico” An Interview with Jack Schwietert of V-S Industries July 2010
Ethics Column: Accepting Amenities
Foreign Companies Must Bring More to the Table in China July 2010
An Interview with Dan Ariely: Professor of Behavioral Economics and author of Predictably Irrational July 2010
Bringing Heat Treat In-House : One company’s induction into the world of heat treating July 2010
Afterthought: Remembering Beverly Sills July 2010
Afterthought: She Had Me at Hello (New June Issue) June 2010
An Interview with former Major Leaguer Doug Glanville (New June Issue)
Swarf: The Money Gravitates West (New June Issue) June 2010
Book Review: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (New June Issue)
Forum: Life Choices (New June Issue) June 2010
Editor’s Note: The Room Service Soda (New June Issue)
Shop Doc: Micro Beginnings June 2010
Manufacturing Muscle : The U.S. Boom in Fitness Equipment
Interview with Tim Roby: President of the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau
Shop Doc – Tangled Up in Tennessee June 2010
Spilling the Beans: An Ethics Column
An Interview with Christine Todd Whitman June 2010
Afterthought: Making the Call May 2010
Swarf: Hyundai Heresy May 2010
Book Review: House Rules
Editor’s Note: Unpolitic About Politics
One on One with Carl Hoffman May 2010
One on One with Scott Goldman May 2010
Afterthought – Bread of Affliction? April 2010
One on One – Ron Dolecek
Book Review – Game Change
Editor’s Note – Pick Up the Phone–and Listen
Shop Doc – Off-Center April 2010
Shop Doc – Chips
Shop Doc – Bore-Dumb
Shop Doc – Loose Ends
Shop Doc – Dreading the Threading
Shop Doc – Flaking in the Threads with Brass Parts
Shop Doc – Holding Tight
Shop Doc – Tapped Out
Shop Doc: Threading Issues
Shop Doc – Thread
Shop Doc – Call of Confusion April 2010
Shop Doc – Headstock Case April 2010
Shop Doc – Concentric Battle
Shop Doc – Thread
Shop Doc – Tripping Along
Shop Doc – Oil Bind
Shop Doc – Mark S. Begone
Shop Doc – When to go Hydromat March 2010
Book Review – Right Here on Our Stage Tonight
Editor’s Note – Not For Everyone’s Taste
Swarf – Battling for Steel
One on One – Dr. Kenneth Polonsky
Afterthought – Toyota’s Lean Mistake March 2010
Afterthought – Picking the Bargains January 2010
Swarf – Find Your Own Goat
Editor’s Note – Oiling the Bitter Leaves
Book Review – The Help
One on One – Dr. Dennis Hong
Swarf – Oprah and The Acme December 2009
One on One – Noah interviews Jake Nickell from Threadless December 2009
Shop Doc – High Speed Hard Milling December 2009
Shop Doc – Vexed Hex
Afterthought – Finding Peace with Our Choices
One on One – Daniel Seddiqui
Book Review – Shooting Stars
One on One – iPod Doctor November 2009
Book Review – Voices from the Moon November 2009
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From The Experts

pbagswell

Shop Doc: Micro Beginnings
Peter Bagwell

Dear Shop Doc,
I have recently been asked if my shop does “micro” machining. I’ve done some work on small
parts recently, but I’m not exactly sure what is meant by “micro.” [...]

dmurphy

Shop Doc – Tangled Up in Tennessee
Dan Murphy

Today’s Machining World Archive: April 2010 Vol. 6, Issue 03
Dear Shop Doc,
We are running a long aluminum part on our CNC Swiss and have problems with the long [...]

Mark Bos

Making parts faster doesn’t always mean cheaper
Mark Bos

By Mark Bos
In today’s difficult economy, we are all trying to make parts faster and cheaper. Unfortunately, making parts faster is sometimes at odds with making them cheaper.
I have learned [...]

Flavio Rovertoni

Shop Doc – When to go Hydromat
Flavio Rovertoni

Dear Shop Doc,
We are a new job shop looking to add some equipment. We are wondering whether we should invest in used rotary transfer machines like a Hydromat Legacy or [...]

Numberology

Top Metal Predictions for the rest of 2010 (The Street.com)

In 2010 gold is up 6.8%, silver is up 4.8%, and copper is down 12%. In this video, Wayne Atwell, managing director of Casimir Capital, thinks copper has the most upside for the rest of 2010. This is based primarily on demand from China.