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Articles in May, 2008 issue of Modern Machine Shop

• Machining megatrends
  by Peter C. Zelinski
• NTMA job training program moves forward
  by Matthew D. Danford
• Turning is optional! This maker of racing engine components discovered that a lathe can still be the right choice, even without turning. This part run on a lathe calls for only milling and drilling
  by Peter Zelinski
• Image-based ID reader
• Summary charts ease data review
• Air, liquid coolant through turning and threading system—Dorian Tool, booth 5375
• Presetting and data management software—Parlec, Inc., booth 5567
• Shrink-fit toolholders—Lyndex-Nikken, booth 5355
• Six-jaw power chuck—Schunk, booth 5407
• Boxway VMC features rigid base and column—Toyoda, booth 1205
• Driven rotary broaching attachment
• Bar feeders feature a built-in setup wizard
• 99 precision production applications
  by Emily K. Tudor
• Rotating tool for turning touted as alternative to single-point cutters
  by Matthew D. Danford
• Improved accuracy at high draw tube forces
• Machining and operator productivity get a boost
• Planer type boring-machining centres
• Box slant bed lathe with milling capability—Okuma, booth 1305
• Solid carbide end mills designed for micro-machining—Emuge, booth 5222
• T-slots and high performance roughing end mills—Travers Tool Co., booth 5824
• Flexible machining for medium—volume production—Mikron, booth 1025
• Mount pump/skimmer using magnetic frame—Keller Products, booth 3309
• Drill through workpieces with replaceable vacuum chuck top plate
• Insert clamping for milling cutters
• Standard tooling columns
  by Emily K. Tudor
• Lending a hand to the machining center
  by Peter Zelinski
• Meeting dates
• Measuring taper for toolholders and spindle applications: air gages can help a shop make sure that taper on a toolholder is not worn or inaccurate
  by George Schuetz
• Software features minimum screen navigation
• Boring mill features a 360-degree rotary table—Knuth Machine Tools, booth 1125
• CAM software enhancements lower production time—DP Technology, booth 5559
• Readout system features high resolution screen—Fagor Automation, booth 2121
• Height gage—Mahr Federal, booth 3017
• CAM engine for CAD—SolidCAM, booth 5515
• Wire EDM designed for non-experts—GF AgieCharmilles, booth 1503
• Line of solid carbide boring tools
• Catalog features abrasive technology
  by Emily K. Tudor
• You can't beat death, but you can beat the estate tax
  by Irving L. Blackman
• Live tools feature square drives
• Gear manufacturer cuts costs by reclaiming used tools
• MX7 high performance floor type boring-milling machine
• VMCs reduce cycle times—clausing industrial, booth 1325
• Small bore profiling and back turning tools—Thinbit, booth 5344
• Software features enhancements for high speed machining—Gibbs and Associates, booth 5429
• Machining/automation cell—Methods Machine Tools, booth 1205
• CAM system automates toolpath generation and simulation—Geometric Technologies, booth 5454
• 3-Axis CNC router for large sheet work
• High-performance milling cutter
• Catalog details solid carbide end mills
  by Emily K. Tudor
• The summer camp fix
  by Mark Albert
• Grants offered for precision machining training
  by Matthew D. Danford
• Modular tombstones and sub-plates
• Software features enhanced 3D simulation module
• Point cloud inspection reference processes large data sets
• 40,000-RPM HSK spindle designed for industrial engraving—Datron Dynamics, booth 1261
• Increased psi water-jet technology—Flow International, booth 1515
• System extracts CAD data directly from a solid model—Griffo Brothers, booth 5032
• EDM and waterjet—Mitsubishi EDM/laser, booth 1043
• Cylindrical grinder—United Grinding, booth 1559
• Increase productivity in short hole drilling
• Enhanced extruded machining stock
• Low-profile, internal motor conveyors
  by Emily K. Tudor
• Wind turbine windfall?
  by Derek R. Korn
• IMTS to feature educational events
  by Matthew D. Danford
• Cubes squared in 1 minute or less
• Spreadsheet program calculates program-zero assignment values
• Software manages customer/management relations
• Inserts designed for great depth of cut—BIG Kaiser, booth 5244
• Fiber laser marking system—Laser Marking Technologies, Booth 2025
• Waterjet technologies—Jet Edge, booth 1065
• High accuracy radio touch probe—Renishaw, booth 3033
• Waterjet machining cuts large stock—Omax, booth 1029
• Shrink fit toolholding for benchtop operation
• Bellows-type way protectors
• Superfinishing machine allows quick change-over
  by Emily K. Tudor
• How PLM helps manage global supply chains
• EMCO Maier names new president
  by Matthew D. Danford
• Attracted to a better way: modular, magnetic workholding blocks have changed the way this shop approaches the machining of both large and small workpieces. The blocks' portability allows them to be used on a variety of different machines. Their flexibilit
  by Derek Korn
• Compact magnetic encoders for many applications
• Software component designed for 3D sketching, application integration

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