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March, 2006

Editorial

A new partnership with The Practical Machinist

Features

Do-it-yourself thermography

Affordable, easy-to-use imagers bring preventativemaintenance surveys in-house.

Get more out of turning operations

On autopilot: machining in the dark

Florida shop rakes in profit with the lights out.

Precision care for high-speed spindles

Care in design and application delivers high performance and productivity.

Tech Trends

From linear to lean

Laser delivers high green output

Press-on labels sense machinery heat

Software tracks loading and jobs

SolidWorks unveils 64-bit editions of software

Three-turret turning center cuts cycle time

Cutting Tool Digest

Solid-carbide end mills

Dual-contact toolholding

Chucks for large barstock

Coolant-through parting/grooving system

Cutoff inserts

Flexible borescopes

Gaining an edge in insert performance

Long/short-stroke grippers

Milling/turning combo tool

Government Matters

Republicans face problems in 2006 elections

Machine of the Month

Opposing turrets speed shaft work

Law and Liability

No workers'-comp benefits from workplace fight

Casebooks

Shops harness the power of creepfeed grinding

Software simplifies blisk machining

Wheel blasts through surface-prep work

New Equipment

Big Kaiser shows precision tooling

BohrStar's 12-piece boring kit

Briney Introduces Special Toolholders at WESTEC

Bystronic waterject and laser cutting systems

Campbell Grinder Co. has a new landing gear grinder

CGTech shows its Vericut 6 simulation software

Charmilles features Robofil 240cc

Delcam adds machining and recognition functions to its software

Dorian Tool International shows Jet-Streat turning tools

DP Technology releases advanced mill/turn software

Edge Technologies exhibits for first time

Exact Software releases JobBoss 9

FlexArm taps 0 to 80 holes

GBI Cincinnati introduces Feeler machine tools

Heartech Precision Inc. features indexers and rotary tables

Heidenhain introduces a universal digital readout

Marposs introduces 3D shape inspection software

Westec features new equipment and conferences

Practical Ideas

Idea overrides chatter

Tool cuts out serration problem

Retrospective

AM Publisher's book translated to Japanese

Fast times

75 years ago in American Machinist

Little impact seen from Ford closings

Shop Operations Department

Westec features new equipment and conferences