45 | Coatings Give Tools the Cutting Edge PVD, CVD-coated, or uncoated—which cutting tool choice is the best for the application at hand? Steel, cast iron, heat-resistant alloys head the list.
55 | Measure It on the Machine
As machining evolves, tool monitoring and on-machine measurement technologies are keeping pace. The result is ever more effective process control, at the right price, making “lights-out” manufacturing ever more practical.
65 | Micro Manufacturing Keeps Shrinking the Envelope
Micro components continue to shrink in size, demanding ever-greater precision and improved handling of parts with sub-micron-sized features. New approaches in micro machining technology include higher-precision systems from traditional micro machining developers, as well as techniques using additive manufacturing processes and semiconductor wafer-scale technology.
75 | Beyond Runout: Toolholders that Grip, Lock and Raise the Bar
Increasingly, the industry is delivering patented new toolholding systems for gripping, clamping and locking tools in place, as well as deadening vibrations. The latest products are also bigger and smaller than ever.
65 DEPARTMENTS
6 UPFRONT Wishing You a Competitive 2013 8 CALENDAR 10 QUALITY SCAN
How to Stop Overpaying for Quality
12 SME SPEAKS SME: Making It Possible
17 NEWSDESK Skills Gap To Drive Global Power Shift 29 TECH FRONT
Robotic Laser Software Trims Auto Steel
37 SHOP SOLUTIONS Texas Shop Automates Precision Production
ON THE WEB
Improving Inspection of Turbine Blades Danny Shacham, Chief Technical Officer, Nextec Laser Metrology, Eastlake, OH. http://tinyurl.com/janmfg
84 TECH SPECS 84 KNOWLEDGE EXPRESS 114 PRODUCT PREVIEWS 122 CLASSIFIEDS 123 AD INDEX
The Cover: Emuge (West Boylston, MA), a leader in threading, demonstrates its expertise at tapping operations. Emuge says that it was the first to offer SSY tap holders and that it has the widest range of tap holders. Last year, Emuge introduced new modular MQL Softsynchro tap holders for machines with synchronous spindles.