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Articles in June, 2008 issue of Modern Applications News

• Let's make machining a Girlie profession: isn't it about time to drop our gender blinders about which sex belongs in the shop?
  by Pete Nofel
• February manufacturing technology consumption up 4.4 percent from 2007
• Woman machinist is the first female to compete in NTMA apprentice competition
• Heidenhain controllers guide a big eye
• Trumpf is first German machine tool company to open a production plant in Japan
• Haas opens factory outlets in India
• I want my SME
• AMT gets new president
• The bull of the woods
• Wisconsin firm completes $4 million expansion, adds 100 jobs
• Siemens expands retrofit effort
• DMG steps into entry-level market
• NexTECH what's on the cutting edge of technology
• Finish pass anxiety-part 2: a "twist" of fate, and a tool, creates and solves a mystery and helps alleviate finish pass anxiety
  by Dave Sterling
• Eggs and chickens, something must come first: while it may not be art to rival DaVinci's, Leonardo's skills with a CAD/CAM package let him program a job that looked like it would bring in long-term work to his start-up job shop
  by Ben Mund
• Simulation software and new technologies: machine and control simulation, and technologies like Wi-Fi, have moved from emerging technologies into useful tools on the shop floor
  by Pearson Randy
• Counting down to IMTS—Part I: this begins a three-part preview of the international manufacturing technology show, 2008. In this, and the next two issues—July and August—man will highlight the products and events taking place in Chicago fro
• Stringing along energy development: pipe strings down oil well bores have to be stabilized with collars cut from huge forgings. A manufacturer of the stabilizers incorporated new machines to do the job
• The right software led to shop success: after striking out on his own, a shop enterpreneur found a CAD/CAM package that saved him time and money, as well as solving "impossible" problems
• The proof is in the plastic: three-dimensional printing technology translated scans of the space shuttle tiles for safety evaluation. The same technology allows proof of concept before metal is machined
• Carbide to the rescue: a carbide end mill that finished the job in two hours, instead of three-and-a-half days, ended a backlog for an oil industry manufacturer
• The rule of ones: Implementing Lea Manufacturing concepts and standardizing welding process let a shop decrease downtime and quality variance
• A Swiss turning center turns problems into profits: minimizing turning operations between centers was the goal and a new Swiss turning center met it
• Blasting cabinet has a 36" diameter turntable
• Deburr, polish, clean, and relieve stress in one process
• Micro-abrasive system for blasting small parts
• Micro brushes for tiny deburring
• Two deburring tools at 1,600 ipm
• Wet Deburring
• Combustible deburring dust caught by wet system
• Totes add up to 15 percent more storage capacity
• Material self-lubricating at high temperatures
• Boring heads come in five range sizes
• Higher productivity in short-hole drilling
• No sparks here
• Sensor has 28mm beam spread
• Safe delivery of welding wire to robotic cells
• It's just like free money: cutting the "fat" from business—shedding the unproductive processes that can be embedded and overlooked in a company—can mean freeing money for investment or new business mining
  by Ralph L. Keller