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DMG/Mori Seiki USA Marks Grand Opening of Mori Seiki Manufacturing
The new $50 million state-of-the-art factory and R&D center covers a 291,000 sq ft campus that builds Mori Seiki NHX4000, NHX5000 and NHX5500 machine tools and collaborates as a partner for general manufacturing concerns, such as factory automation.
Northwest Machine Technologies Launches Automation Division
The Mazak distributor now helps customers gain a comprehensive approach to manufacturing automation by providing complete robot integration services for their machine tools.
Wall Colmonoy Makes Management Changes
The manufacturer adds an experienced operations director with an aerospace and automotive background and a new chief financial officer with a track record of delivering effective change programs to drive profitability and value creation.
Columbia Marking Tools Strengthens U.S. Sales Coverage
The marking tools manufacturer appoints new sales representatives in the West and Midwest.
Time to Reload
Ammunition reloading equipment manufacturer RCBS replaced manual surface finishing with an automated diamond-crystal operation from Brush Research Manufacturing to overcome ergonomic and quality problems – and increases production efficiency up to 70 percent.
Macro Programming… Keeping It All “In the Family”
Through the use of standard canned cycles on today’s advanced CNC, Randy Pearson of Siemens Industry shows how the programmer can use much higher levels of language without the need for custom writes, when transitioning among part family members.
Adopting a Nuclear Option
Wisconsin job shop Lindquist Machine adapts to the changing economy by increasing its presence in the nuclear energy market and adding wind energy customers with the help of an FT 3500 horizontal boring mill.
Metalworking Fluid Performance in Aluminum High Speed Machining
Dr. Robert Evans of Quaker Chemical heads a research team that shares some useful insights into the importance of highly engineered aluminum machining fluids in high speed cutting operations.
NTMA Fills Vacancy on Executive Team
John Belzer of TCI Precision Metals agrees to fill the vacancy effective immediately through March 2013.
Mazak Hires Account Manager for Western Regional Headquarters
The engineer serving in this role will help aerospace customers in the San Diego improve their manufacturing cycle efficiencies, reduce their production costs and much more.
Multipurpose Milling in a Single Tooling Solution
The M200 Milling Series from WIDIA offers high performance and productivity for multiple roughing and semi-finishing applications, from die and mold to energy and aerospace.
Cut and Paste Program Changeover

Here’s how job shop multi-taskers and busy machine operators can pull information from existing server files off a network, flash card or memory stick and fill in the blanks to be up and running faster.