Balancing Operations and Training

Tooling U-SME's latest report — Balancing Operations and Training: Small Steps Create Big Wins — takes a closer look at some easy first steps and effective best practices that you can implement today to turn small wins into significant progress.

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Step Up Your High Speed Machining Game with These 5 Books

November 12, 2019

Modern machining is all about speeds and feeds. The old school slow, heavy cuts that were very popular back in the day have been replaced with a new way of machining parts characterized by fast, lighter cuts.

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LIFT Receives $5 Million Department of Defense Grant To Expand “Operation Next” Across the Country

November 12, 2019

LIFT – Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow, announced today it received a $5 million grant to expand the program to nine additional military bases across the country over the next three years.

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Tsugami/Rem Sales Continues to Support Wounded Warrior Project

November 12, 2019

Tsugami/Rem Sales, the exclusive North American importer of Precision Tsugami machine tools, announced today that it is committed to support our nation’s wounded warriors through Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) and the nonprofit’s free programs and services.

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3D Printing Cuts Costs by 80% and Delivers 50% Time Savings on Robotic End-of-Arm Tooling
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Manufacturing Engineering: November 2019

Fabrication technologies continue to advance, with processing speeds increasing in laser cutting, welding, EDMing and waterjet cutting. In the November 2019 issue, Manufacturing Engineering takes an in-depth look at these technologies and previews FABTECH 2019 in Chicago.

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