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American Machinist feature articles
U.S. shops discover oil
It has been only a few years since many U.S. cutting-tool shops converted from grinding with water-based emulsion fluids to straight refined oils. However, switching from these refined-mineral-based oil products to 100% pure synthetics is happening much faster. The reason? Synthetics offer benefits above and beyond those of standard mineral-based oil products. Read more
Manufacturing pays the bills, but shipping keeps the customers
Vanamatic Co., a screw-machine shop in Delphos, Ohio, had an ERP system to help run operations more efficiently and profitably. As is true for many shops, they found this system lacking, particularly for satisfying customer specs and error detection for shipping and packaging. So they purchased a smaller, less expensive ERP system from Henning Software Inc., Hudson, Ohio, that meets all customer requirements and prevents shipping the wrong parts or quantities.Read more
Do you know where your axis slide is?
Shops looking for machine tools capable of producing high accuracies must understand how precision-robbing axis errors occur and be able to evaluate their effects. To do this, they must understand the capabilities and limitations of the techniques used to measure axis position errors. Read more
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Damian Kotecki, a technical director for The Lincoln Electric Co., has been elected president of the American Welding Society. Kotecki plans to focus on international-standards development, education programs, and certification of welding personnel as he expands AWS's global presence. For more information, please visit: http://www.aws.org or lincolnelectric.com
3M chief takes over at Boeing
W. James McNerney Jr. has been hired by The Boeing Co. as its president, CEO, and chairman of the board. He was formerly chairman and CEO of 3M and has been on Boeing's board of directions for about 3 1/2 yr. For more information, click here.
Sept. 13-15 Midwest APEX, Novi, Mich., Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Association for Manufacturing Technology, and American Machine Tool Distributors Assoc., (800) 733-4763, or visit: http://www.sme.org
Sept. 14-21 EMO 2005, Hanover, Germany, VDW, German Machine Tool Builders' Assoc., 49-69/75 60 81-0, or visit: http://www.emo-hannover.de and vdw.de
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