Articles from Modern Applications News (August 1, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
+p change and challenges drive shop's growth: embracing change and taking challenging jobs have been the pillars supporting the growth of an Indiana job shop that understands that its job is productivity.			833
2005 machine tool consumption up 18.6%.			486
Are you sneaking out? Twenty years ago "business is recovering" meant lots of manufacturing rehires. "Business is booming," meant lots of new jobs. Happy days were always here again. Not so today.	Weimer, George		622
Carbide face grooving tools.			73
Carbide-tipped capscrew counterbores.			98
Changing marginal jobs into profit producers: one reality of the job shop business is that you're often stuck running some barely break-even jobs along with the profitable ones. One of the secrets to job shop success is turning marginal jobs into profitable jobs.			1188
Drill point end mills.			111
End mills for cutting complicated designs.			118
Fighting vehicle upgrade tasks to BAE Systems.			226
Flexible manufacturing cell.			105
Fluid, wash changes solve stamping bonding problems: a synthetic metalworking fluid caused production bonding challenges and dermatitis problems in a progressive stamping operation making electric motor housings.			1007
Heavy-duty keyway broaches.			96
High-Performance Cutting Tools.		Buyers Guide	2502
High-speed milling inserts.			111
Inserts for hard turning.			110
Large-capacity live centers.			122
Lean manufacturing certification program being developed by SME.			221
Level the playing field.	Arnold, Dave	Letter to the Editor	428
Machining centers feature tool storage tower.			85
Motion controller technology.			90
Negative rake turning inserts.			121
New Jersey funds training, certification.			130
New product catalog.			137
New style clamp.			119
New system for Swiss-type lathes.			134
New technology, again.	Strauchen, Andrew "Drew"	Letter to the Editor	222
New technology.	Parker, Ron	Letter to the Editor	230
PCBN hard turning can reduce time 90%: improvements in machine tool rigidity and the further developments in polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (PCBN) cutting tools, have shown hard turning to be a productive and cost-effective alternative to grinding for finishing hardened (45 to 64 HRc) steel parts.			1317
PMI at 53.8% New Orders, production expanding.			586
Precision straightener slashes scrap rate, secondary rework: flatness was critical for stamping an automotive engine control module and continuous surface cleanliness was also vital to the end result. It took an unusual piece of straightening equipment to finally solve the problem.			1185
Productivity, the economic essential: after an exhausting international study, one of the world's leading management consulting firms has determined what the essential element to the success of a nation's economy is. They could have saved a lot of time and money by walking into your shop and asking you.	Mullally, John		660
Queen Isabella.	Baranyi, Sandor J.	Letter to the Editor	114
RE: June, 2005 "the editor's corner".	Cohen, Donald K.		57
Square shoulder end/face milling cutters.			126
Toolholders suitable for MQL applications.			112
Triangular workholding system.			125