Precision Double-Disc Grinding, Plus 8 More New Machining Ideas

June 30, 2016
Machine shop operators need new ideas to keep them engaged, aware, active, and competitive — and new technologies to help them improve their performance. Here are nine product ideas we discovered this week to make machining, shop management, tooling, and quality control more effective and productive.

If you operate a machine shop — or any manufacturing, fabricating, or assembly operation — or any of the extenuating process technologies, like product and process design, troubleshooting, CAM programming, tool design and selection, quality control, etc. — you face a steady flow of new technology and products, updates and improvements intended to address the large and small, general and arcane details that concern machine operators, programmers and shop owners and managers. Here’s a list of the nine ideas for machining, setting up, programming, cutting, turning, grinding, tool selection, and so on … that caught our attention this week.