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 ...

In the newly established AI Production Network, scientists are researching how artificial intelligence, AI, can optimise production processes. Many steps and facets of industrial production are being ...

Modern milling machines look much the same as they did 30 years ago. However, they now must cut superalloys, titanium, and high-tensile steels to closer tolerances and at faster rates than before. To ...

My previous article in the September 2025 issue of World Grain, titled “Examining cleaning machine categories,” addressed ...

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 ...

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.

Meissen, Germany, is best known as the site of Europe’s oldest porcelain manufacturer, but among its other industrial businesses is Kersten Maschinenbau, a specialty mechanical engineering company ...

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 ...