Cutting tool management is a vital part of the daily functioning of every machine shop, as no chips are flying without the right tools in stock. Some shops have turned to digital tools that help them ...

Purchase your machine shop tools. Depending on the type of work you plan to do, you may get by with basic large equipment, such as lathes and cutting machines.

Every year, Gardner Intelligence conducts a survey of machine shops in partnership with Modern Machine Shop. The Top Shops survey is a benchmarking tool that enables participating shops to compare ...

Building a good quality machine shop may seem to present a chicken-and-egg problem, at least for anyone not willing to mortgage their home for the money needed to buy all of these tools new. Namely… ...

Tool-X LLC president Jim English is a former GM engineer with experience in chemicals and coatings, adhesives, plating technologies, fasteners, and lubricants. This is the third of a series of reports ...

Tool-X LLC president Jim English is a former GM engineer with experience in chemicals and coatings, adhesives, plating technologies, fasteners, and lubricants. This is the first of a series of reports ...

Shaper tools were, at one time, a necessary tool for any machine shop. With a shaper and a lathe, you can rebuild or manufacture almost anything. At the very least, you can make the tool to manufac… ...

The Machine Shop is filled with tools to support class projects. In their first semester, students taking Manufacturing Processes (MFET-120) learn to safely operate each machine tool and its ...

Last month, we took a look at the Metal Machine from Williams Lowbuck Tools and I have to tell ya, I was impressed as heck. I just had to add the Metal Machine to my home shop's tool collection ...

The Department of Physics at Michigan Tech maintains a dedicated machine shop to support the research and teaching activities of the department. Skip to page ... along with various other metal and ...