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This is What a Massive 500 Gallon Propane Tank Explosion Looks Like

If there's one thing that you want to avoid with anything that's propane powered from your grill to your heater, It would most obviously be a situation that would put the propane tank in danger of building up enough pressure to explode and send shrapnel flying everywhere. While these tanks are fitted with safety...

10 Questions You Should Ask a Mechanic Before They Work on Your Car

Before you let anyone work on your car, ask them these 10 questions. Based on their answers, you'll know if they're the right mechanic to do the job.

What Is CNC Machining?

CNC machines create parts from just about any material imaginable. Learn more here.

How Can Drivers Avoid Costly Automotive Repair?

What is the key to avoiding costly automotive repair? The answer is fairly obvious—keep up with basic automotive service at the appropriate mileage and time intervals. You will be helping your vehicle keep operating efficiently for as long as possible.How do you do this, you ask? First of all, reg...

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Plan maintenance for legacy machine tools

Many SMEs, having invested in modern equipment, struggle to integrate the maintenance of their legacy machines into new their new digital manufacturing paradigm.

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Metal AM in a Machine Shop? Ask the Marines

A hybrid system combining metal 3D printing with machining gives the Marine Corps perhaps its most effective resource yet for obtaining needed hardware in the field. It also offers an extreme version of the experience a machine shop might have in adding metal AM to its capabilities.

How Scrap Metal from Machine Shops gets Recycled

Ever wonder what happens to scrap metal from machine shops? Learn about the recycling process and how scrap gets from the floor back to the factory.

This Machine Shop In A Box Turns Your Desk Into A Factory

3-D printers are so one-dimensional. This machine shop in a box fits on your desk and can print, mill, and etch multiple materials. It even catches fish! (No really, but it can 3-D-print one.)

Machine Vision Inspection Speeds Up Automotive Lines

As machine vision technologies improve, providing more data more frequently, new uses for inspection during the manufacturing process are emerging By Bruce Morey Contributing Editor The automotive industry might represent the ultimate challenge to providers of machine vision equipment used in robotic guidance and material inspection. “The automotive industry is a microcosm of the entire …

CNC Machines: In The Beginning / Is Your Wood Shop Ready?

CNC routers are becoming as commonplace as sliding tablesaws in the modern woodshop, but woodworkers should consider whether or not the investment will pay off.

Your In-House Panel Machine Shop for Custom Solutions.

80/20’s in-house Panel Machine Shop provides the total solution. With over 100 varieties of plastic panels, aluminum plates, and wire mesh and thicknesses ranging up to half an inch, you won’t have to wait on material or machining. 80/20 has the technology to send your design files directly to the machines, ensuring accuracy and reducing turnaround time.

Options for Manufacturing Cost Reduction

Concepts and ideas for reducing manufacturing costs range from process changes to automation to raw materials negotiations. We can help you drive down costs.

11 Great Ideas for Machine Shops

Forward-thinking machine shops must watch for emerging technologies. Here are 11 ideas we found this week for set-up, tooling, machining, and shop operations.

MC007: It’s Not Your Dad’s Machine Shop [Podcast]

Manufacturing conjures up an image of a dirty, physical, labor intensive job, but the reality is that the machining industry is one of the most technological forward and innovative industries. In...

Machine learning as a service: Can privacy be taught?

Machine learning requires massive amounts of data to teach the model. But we're often uploading that data to machine learning cloud services run by folks like Amazon and Google, where it might be exposed to malicious actors. Can we use machine-learning-as-service and protect privacy?