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New Solid End Mill Solution Offers up to 90% Reduction in Cycle Times

Fabricating & Metal Work

This new solution provides high process security, significant productivity gains and cycle time reductions of up to 90 percent, making it well suited for the aerospace industry and other high-demand sectors. Results achieved thus far demonstrate the tools reliability and productivity, said Haglington.

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Certifying Manufacturing Student Programs and Parts

Modern Machine Shop

Kooyers runs morning and afternoon sections of the Advanced Manufacturing course, both of which have a maximum of 18 students. A manufacturing program is much like a part in one key aspect: It doesn’t matter how well either is made unless there’s a way to check the results. All images courtesy of Verisurf.

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Five-Axis CAM Strategies Cut Cycle Time for Two Shops

Modern Machine Shop

While some manufacturers feel an understandable degree of anxiety over being acquired by a larger company, success stories abound when larger machine shops with canny owners build on the strengths of their acquisitions. ” “We are shedding cycle time and creating capacity for more orders down the road.”

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Large Hybrid Steel Insert Solves Deformation, Dimensionality, Cycle Time Problems

Mold Making Technology

From the start, the company embraced the benefits of metal additive manufacturing (AM). That led to many aerospace companies knocking on Linear’s door, asking to observe the machine running, since the only other company with an EOS metal additive printer was another aerospace competitor.

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The Shift Toward Smarter Shops: Real-World Stories of Data-Driven Manufacturing

Modern Machine Shop

Our May, 2025 print edition offers five stories that unpack data-driven manufacturing and showcase its role in a variety of shop settings. Let’s start with AI’s role in discrete part manufacturing — a topic prone to wildly varying interpretations within our industry. And at the center of it all is data.

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Soft Skills Prove a Sharp Edge in Plastics Manufacturing

Modern Machine Shop

It’s easier for them to subcontract it out,” says Mark Rohlfs, president and one half of the brother-and-sister ownership team of East Coast Precision Manufacturing. “Connecticut has a long history of manufacturing and machine shops,” Nancy says. “We have Pratt and Whitney here. We have Sikorsky.

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Machine Monitoring Boosts Aerospace Manufacturer's Utilization

Modern Machine Shop

Photo Credit: Enjet Aero Enjet Aero , a manufacturer of jet engine precision-machined and fabricated components and assemblies with nine facilities and a wide array of capabilities, relied on employees to record data from shop floor processes in spreadsheets, a time-consuming and labor-intensive task.