Recently added articles from Tooling & Production:
A 'wind'-fall: economically viable industry holds hope for the future.(larger margin)
May 01, 2009; ... Of the fields said to be recession-resistant industries, "green engineering" is near the top of the list. News commentators are forecasting a number of job openings. Companies will be hiring workers to figure out how to recapture steam to provide heat, to create energy from braking ...
Record aluminum content: use of the lightweight metal in automobiles at all-time high.(news & analysis)
May 01, 2009 ... A new study has found that the 2009 North American vehicle contains an all-time high amount of aluminum--8.6 percent of vehicle curb weight. The study by Ducker Worldwide, commissioned by The Aluminum Association Inc., pointed to the surge as an effort by automakers to meet the ...
T&P's 75th birthday this summer.(news & analysis)
May 01, 2009 ... Back in 1934, a group led by Cleveland businessman Roy T. Wise was called the Special Tool, Die & Machine Shop Industry Trade Association. It founded a publication--and that magazine became the one you are now reading, Tooling & Production. That year, the United States and the ...
Saw blades tipped with carbide.(news & analysis)(Correction notice)
May 01, 2009 ... The L.S. Starrett Co. has introduced a new line of carbide tipped band saw blades named Advanz with a special tooth tip cylinder of sub-micron grain carbide with a triple-chip grind, welded to a ductile back. These new blades ...
Managing is managing: be it baseball or the shop floor, operating at low decibels is a plus.(straight talk)
May 01, 2009; ... Read Joe Torre's latest book, The Yankee Years, and you'll find that a baseball team is a lot like running a manufacturing shop floor--except for the salaries paid. Torre went to work managing the New York Yankees in 1996, putting his unique management style to work. ...