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April 2021 U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $170 million. This total was down 4.3 percent from March's $177.6 million but up 26.3 percent when compared with the $134.6 million reported for April 2020.
Selecting the best type of cutting tool for holemaking jobs is not always clear. It is best to have a drill that caters to the workpiece material, produces the specs required, and provides the most profit for the job at hand. Considering the variety of jobs and parts manufactured in machine shops, there is no “one-drill-fits-all.”
Verisurf Software said it appointed Tara Mitchell as business development manager for the Americas.
As manufacturers embrace the “new normal,” advanced technologies will set organizations apart from the field.
CNC professionals around the world are taking advantage of Siemens’ free training, available hands-on and online, to improve their shop floors and their careers.
Siemens Digital Industries Software and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced an expansion of their collaboration, which combines Siemens’ deep industry expertise with cloud services from AWS.
The experience an Italian electronics manufacturer had with emerging tools provides a glimpse of a better world.
Manufacturing USA Update: PowerAmerica’s Victor Veliadis offers a mass-production plan for SiC chips
Cutting small holes or features sometimes only visible through a microscope requires special expertise from those supplying the cutting tools.
