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1 week ago | 
mmsonline.com | Evan Doran
MSP Manufacturing, a job shop on the edge of Bloomington, Indiana, specializing in aviation and defense, has seen a lot of change in the last few years — and equally much growth. Johnny Goode, its current president, comes from a law enforcement background and only started with the company (and the manufacturing industry) around 2020.
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mmsonline.com | Evan Doran
Starrett’s families of indicators share numerous design commonalities, but manufacturing the many intricate differences between them requires a diverse range of tools and efficient processes. Photos provided by Modern Machine Shop. Testing a gage requires an operator to follow careful, standard procedures and use reference standards even more accurate than the gage in question. But what about manufacturing that gage?
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2 weeks ago | 
mmsonline.com | Evan Doran
Mark: My father worked at another manufacturing company making gun drills. He must have done work on Saturday morning, so my brother and I had to go in and we were exposed to a larger shop. They were making gun drills, and we were mechanically minded, so we loved it. We loved going in there. This was in the 1970s, when we were elementary school-age kids, and then we had tools. And then when he bought his plastic machine shop in 1985, I was in high school.
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1 month ago | 
mmsonline.com | Evan Doran
“A lot of our customers are other machine shops around New England, because they’ll get orders for machining metals, but then one of their customers might have a couple plastic parts. It’s easier for them to subcontract it out,” says Mark Rohlfs, president and one half of the brother-and-sister ownership team of East Coast Precision Manufacturing.
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1 month ago | 
manufacturingtechnologytoday.com | Evan Doran
“A lot of our customers are other machine shops around New England, because they’ll get orders for machining metals, but then one of their customers might have a couple plastic parts. It’s easier for them to subcontract it out,” says Mark Rohlfs, president and one half of the brother-and-sister ownership team of East Coast Precision Manufacturing.
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1 month ago | 
mmsonline.com | Evan Doran
Modig — both the company and its president — recommend inverted milling for hard metal applications that require extensive stock removal. The trunnion table where users can load parts supports up to 1,874 lbs (850 kg) of material. Images courtesy of Modig Machine Tool. What happens when you flip the spindle in a vertical machining center? At IMTS, I saw a machine that answered this very question: Modig Machine Tool’s IM-8.
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2 months ago | 
mmsonline.com | Evan Doran
While it’s almost impossible to deny that real-time machine monitoring poses great benefits to machine shops, it’s equally impossible to deny that how much it helps a shop depends on the shop in question. As MachineMetrics Chief Product Officer Rutherford Wilson notes, shops can immediately start using these systems to get information about how machines are being utilized.
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2 months ago | 
manufacturingtechnologytoday.com | Evan Doran
While it’s almost impossible to deny that real-time machine monitoring poses great benefits to machine shops, it’s equally impossible to deny that how much it helps a shop depends on the shop in question. As MachineMetrics Chief Product Officer Rutherford Wilson notes, shops can immediately start using these systems to get information about how machines are being utilized.
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2 months ago | 
productionmachining.com | Evan Doran
Advanced CAM programming techniques can make significant differences in the cycle times and costs of jobs, but creating tool paths with these techniques has historically been a time-consuming process, limiting their use to mid- and high-volume parts. Or at least, this was the case in 2010 when Production Machining sister brand, Modern Machine Shop, spoke to Tom Funke, a CAM and applications specialist at Sandvik Coromant for the aerospace, space exploration and defense markets.
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2 months ago | 
mmsonline.com | Evan Doran
East Coast Precision Manufacturing has a habit of defying the odds. Brother-and-sister team Mark and Nancy Rohlfs founded the plastics shop just before the Great Recession and moved into a new building just as the COVID-19 lockdowns began. But this team and their shop have thrived during that time, expanding to its current 34 machine tools and a square footage ten times as large as its starting point in Mark Rohlfs’ garage and basement.
