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May, 2004
Government Matters
Congress must act to end EU sanctions
By Dr. Paul Freedenberg Vice President-Government Relations AMT—The Association For Manufacturing Technology
Bits & Bytes
Explore ideas without sketching
With VX QuickShapes, users explore basic ideas, assess the practicality of design proposals, and quickly produce variants. No sketches were used to produce these models, yet they are still...
Law and Liability
Hook makers not responsible for accident
Sepulveda-Esquivel v. Central Machine Works Inc., 84 P.2d 895 (Wash.App. 2004), Washington Court of Appeals, Jan. 13, 2004.
Casebooks
Shop stays competitive with CMM technology
Using a Contura CMM with a Vastxt probehead and Calypso software, all from Zeiss, Evden operators inspect multifaceted parts, perform roundness checks, and measure part features smaller than 2-mm in...
New Equipment
Machine with built-in workholding
In addition to a 60,000-rpm spindle and 1,000-ipm feedrates, the VelociRaptor machine features the Quick-Pallets modular workholding system. A lightweight, manual pallet changer facilitates batch...
Retrospective
Hide-and-seek
Editors described some methods workers used to cover up defects in automobiles and components in the May 5, 1904, issue. In addition to using soap and plumbago (graphite) to hide defects in iron...
