I entered the Army in 1988 as a military occupational specialty (MOS) 44E (machinist) under the Army Civilian Acquired Skills Program. Since I had received industry standard manual machinist training, ...

Aerotech Machining has been awarded the prestigious Top Shops Honoree in Machining Technology for 2025 by Modern Machine Shop ...

The Allen key turns 115 this year. It’s strange to believe that in all that time, no one has come up with an adjustable version, but apparently true. Luckily [Chronova Engineering] has taken up the ...

Karol Ziecina, a machine specialist at Atlas Precision Manufacturing in South Windsor, Conn., prepares chuck top tooling on a 32-in. diameter, 3-jaw manual chuck. Royal Machine & Tool Corp. designs ...

Some Jobs Just Can't Be Done Efficiently Any Other Way. Big, heavy and usually involving only one or two parts describes the manual jobs at Parker Machine works. Onesy-twosy manual jobs at Sterling ...

Brent Smith from Salt Lake Community College School of Applied Technology tells us about their Manual Machinist program. Manual machinists set up and operate a variety of machine tools to produce ...

This family-owned factory owns 60 patents and developed innovations for screw manufacturing quality control so far ahead of its time that it took decades before it was accepted. But this is a business ...

A VMC (vertical machining center) is essentially a CNC vertical milling machine on steroids. Many CNC mills are just manual milling machines that have been converted to CNC control. They work nicely, ...

CNC machines come in different sizes with different capabilities and limitations, but each is more efficient than creating duplicate products by hand. Some are fully automated, including robotic ...