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VOLUME 2, ISSUE 9
Tuesday, January 15, 2002
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Welcome to our special fabricating and machining industry issue
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In this issue:
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* A Precise Device: The Latest Wire EDM
* Can Tool Builders Expect a Better Finish in 2002?
* Blue Ribbon Machining Applications
* Smarter Sourcing, Quoting & Buying
* U.S. Census Bureau Turns its Gaze to e-Commerce
* Survey: The State of Online Sourcing
* Structural Steel Cutting Made Easy
* Computer-aided Estimating Balances Out
* Thomas Regional's Industrial Marketing Solutions
* First Place Secondary Machining
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A Precise Device: The Latest Wire EDM
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There are times when metalworking requires the greatest degree of
tolerancing. With that in mind, the developers of wire electrical
discharge machining are continuing to push the accuracy envelope:
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Can Tool Builders Expect a Better Finish in 2002?
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2001 was a year that many in the machine tool industry would like
to forget. The good news is that there are indications 2002 may
herald a comeback:
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Blue Ribbon Machining Applications
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Machining applications that core, grind and mill their way to the
front of their fields are being developed at an unstoppable pace:
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Smarter Sourcing, Quoting & Buying
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U.S. Census Bureau Turns its Gaze to e-Commerce
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Now that they've finished the population count, the Census Bureau
will turn its attention to how U.S. businesses are using
electronic commerce:
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Survey: The State of Online Sourcing
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Peer into the current state of online sourcing and learn about the
latest tools that buyers are using to locate custom manufactured
goods and services. You'll also catch an exciting glimpse of
future trends:
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Structural Steel Cutting Made Easy
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Long a thorn in machinists' sides, structural steel cutting can be
a piece of cake by using the following methods:
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Computer-aided Estimating Balances Out
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Estimating software may be the technology that gives machinists
a cutting edge:
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Thomas Regional's Industrial Marketing Solutions
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First Place Secondary Machining
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Learn how one machine shop managed to avoid the usual pitfalls
associated with secondary machining:
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