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July, 2007

Editorial

Benchmarks Point Toward Excellence

Leading Indicators

Worn Tools Still Have Plenty Of Value

Features

Manual Shops Crank Out The Work

Some Jobs Just Can't Be Done Efficiently Any Other Way.

2007 Top Shop Analysis

What Top Shops in our 2007 Survey Do to Stay Competitive

No-Squeeze Workholding

For Parts That Could Be Distorted By Conventional Workholding Methods, Compliant Clamping Or Magnetic Techniques May Be The Answer.

Keeping CAD Files From Going Astray

Failing to protect your intellectural property can cost you big-time.

Tech Trends

A Grinder That's More Like A Milling Machine

Software Versions Target Specific Needs

Cutting Tool Digest

Walter USA Inc.

H.B. Rouse & Co.

Metalworking/Metalforming Fluids

Sandvik Coromant

Sumitomo Electric Carbide Inc.

Government Matters

No Progress On China Currency; What Is To Be Done?

Casebooks

Engineers Go History-Free

Live Tooling Keeps Hands Off Parts

Magnet Relieves Lifting Pains

Shops Cut Out Poor Sawing Production

New Equipment

UNIST, Inc.

SolidWorks Corporation

Shoptech Software Corp.

Seemage, Inc.

New Vista Corporation

Nakanishi Inc.

Morris Welding & Machine, Inc.

MC Machinery Systems, Inc.

Maxager Technology

Lista International Corporation

KAPP Technologies'

Jergens, Inc.

Hexagon Metrology, Inc.

ESI Group

Danray Products LLC

Conceptual Product Development, Inc.

Carl Zeiss Industrial Measuring Technology

Absolute Machine Tools, Inc.

Applimotion, Inc.

Autodesk

BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc.

DMG America

Drake Mfg.

EMAG Group

FANUC Robotics America, Inc.

Practical Ideas

Tap A Stuck Bushing

Try The Reamer Without Holes

Last Word

Moscow Exhibition Shows The Extent Of Advances In Technology

Shop Operations Department

Metalworking Benchmarks 2008

12 key performance factors to a more competitive shop The dozen indicators that leading shops follow to sales and profit