TORMACH LABS

This week we celebrate turkey day, or Thanksgiving for those who prefer more classical phrasing. While we all love our families and are thankful for good health and good food, there are some things that machinists seem to be specifically thankful for.

I’m sure I missed a few things here, but here’s my shortlist of what machinists tend to be thankful for…

Next week is the International Manufacturing Trade Show, IMTS, which is the world’s largest manufacturing trade show event. This show is huge, and the days can be long. There is so much to see that you don’t want to miss anything. So, here are some tips on how to survive IMTS 2018!

Tolerance stacking refers to the combination of various part dimension tolerances. After a tolerance is identified on the dimension of a part, it is important to test whether that tolerance would work with your tool’s tolerances …

When most of us hear the word acrobat, we think of high-flying trapeze or people doing crazy stunts in precarious locations. Believe it or not, there’s an industry for creating the stuff that those crazy performers use everyday.

It’s been said time and again that adding hands-on experiences in the classroom make it easier to learn and understand, especially in the worlds of manufacturing and engineering. Matias Perret is an instructor at the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa, and he has used both a PCNC 770 and a PCNC 440 to give his students …