Enter the edge finder. The humble edge finder is one of those tools that are so commonplace in manual machining that everyone has forgotten how clever they are. It’s just a shaft with a ...

Machinists. As I’ve blathered on about at length previously, machine tools are all about precision. That’s easy to say, but where does precision really come from? In a word, rigidity.

There are a variety of processes involved in the use of machine tools for working with metals. Cold forming involves shaping metal without heat treatment either manually or using a jig ...

The machine rotates the wood and the user uses a variety of chisels to shape the wood by moving the chisels along a tool rest. A metal lathe is like the wood lathe in the type of shapes it can ...

The latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report shows new orders for machine tools totaled $448.8 million in November 2024, 16.8% more the $399.27 million posted for October 2024. The new total ...

But with the wave of artificial intelligence and generative AI development in 2023, the importance of data science and machine learning tools has risen to new heights. One absolute truth about AI ...