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The ATC Alignment Tool functions as a preventative maintenance tool for operators, but also is useful during repairs, and even during the original machine and tool magazine setup.

Golden Corridor Manufacturing Group, Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates – The Golden Corridor Manufacturing Group is a regional partnership of companies and organizations working together to improve the economic conditions of the I-90 corridor in Illinois, USA.

Not all pull studs are created equally.

After years of close observation and collaboration with manufacturing companies of all sizes, BIG Daishowa Seiki engineers have learned how the choice of tool holders affects production costs on the shop floor.

Note the clearance between flanges on this competitor's unlicensed tool holder.

It just so happens that 2012 is a leap year. Cut to the Chase asked BIG Kaiser employees what technologies best represent a leap forward in thinking or practice for the machining industry.

The key to effective and efficient production for workholding is fast changeovers.

With love being in the air, we asked several BIG Kaiser employees what it was they loved about the industry.

Tool presetters are used to measure offsets offline to keep machine tools running.

In an effort to capitalize on the success of Steven Covey’s bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, we thought we could do Mr. Covey one better with the 8 Habits of Highly Effective Boring.