So you added a milling machine to your asphalt crew. Now what? There's so much you can do with these machines on their own, but with advanced technology like 3D grade control, and other automated ...

Which to buy first, a lathe or a mill? It’s a tough question for the aspiring home machinist with limited funds to spend on machine tools, but of course the correct answer is a lathe. With a lathe, we ...

Precision milling has always been locked behind a "members only" sign – giant machines that take up massive warehouse space, cost more than your first car, and hum like an old air compressor 24 hours ...

The industrial machinery landscape is rife with unprecedented challenges—supply chain shortages, labor scarcity and entrepreneurial market disruptions. At the same time, machine builders are tackling ...

Located immediately west of Cape Canaveral and south of the Kennedy Space Center, downtown Merritt Island, FL, is crowded with tourists and the businesses that cater to them. The associated congestion ...

If you’re interested in making things (and since you’re reading this, we’re going to assume you are), you’ve almost certainly felt a desire to make metal parts. 3D printers are great, but have a lot ...

It’s easy to assume that not much has changed with face mills for a while. There’s been so much attention on other milling processes over the last few years, and face mills, or shell mills, were ...

Business has been good at TL Aerotek Inc., with orders flowing in faster than owner, Tai Le, could fill them. He wanted to keep up with accelerating demand and continue building his business, but he ...

When he founded MakerBot eight years ago, Pettis made a multi million-dollar bet that at-home 3-D printing would become the future of manufacturing. Today, that prediction still hasn't materialized.

As a military occupational specialty (MOS) 91E (allied trades specialist), I fabricate, repair, and modify both metallic and nonmetallic parts. Nine years ago, I was trained to use manual lathes and ...