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Cutting Tool Demand Still Stable

 
 
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Dec
21

American Machinist Weekly Update

 
In The Spotlight
An automotive supplier found the best quality and most productive deep-boring performance results from a solid-carbide drill modified with a PCD cutting tip.
Top Stories
There is increasing regulatory attention on suppliers and third parties, and soon it'll be critical to know exactly where all your parts come from and how they get to you.
Year-to-date consumption has passed $2 billion, with aerospace and automotive market indicators showing promise for sustained demand going forward – though one forecaster cautions that sustaining current production levels will be difficult in the near term.
The Pentagon commissioned the first-ever stress test of the defense supply-demand network, combining economic macro-models with microeconomic and process models to track individual decisions and supply-chain operations.
Marketing is an investment: You must have a plan and a budget to continue communicating your solution to people who need it.
Editor's Choice
For small, blind-hole and through-hole threads – a thread depth less than or equal to 2.5 × DN – in M16, M18 and UNC ¾ dimensions, these cutters accept free-cutting indexable inserts with three cutting edges.
An autonomous mobile platform and an AGV platform expand the automated logistics of manufacturing production and storage centers.
A new release features an updated calculation algorithm, to help machine programmers find safe tool approach and return paths, even with complex machining projects.
 
 

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