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Precision Profiles Was Running on Relationships and Memory. Then It Built a System (opens the original)
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A Precision Profiles machinist works a large-diameter bar at the company's Titusville, Pennsylvania, facility. The shop keeps decades-old machines like this one in production because newer equipment removes more material than its customers can afford to lose. Source: All images provided by Modern Machine Shop An 18,000-pound bar of Monel 400 arrives at Precision Profiles' hollow machining department that needs a 16-inch hole cut through its center. At roughly $65 per pound, this massive cylindri
The Paper Bag and the Digital Twin (opens the original)
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Bridgeport Serial No. 1, the machine Rudolph Bannow sketched on a paper bag in 1936, on display at the American Precision Museum ahead of its trip to Gardner’s IMTS booth this September. Source: Evan Doran/Modern Machine Shop The internet’s favorite Picasso quote, “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working,” may be entirely fabricated, but it still rings true in the case of Rudolph Bannow. One day in 1936, Bannow was out on a delivery for his pattern shop in Bridgeport, Connecticut, whe
The Field Guide You Should Have Read on the Plane (opens the original)
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Six days. 1.2 million square feet. 1,800-plus exhibitors. One reality: If you have no map and no plan, you have no real shot at getting what you came for. The goal is to help you move through IMTS with a purpose, find what your shop actually needs, and get back to work with decisions made rather than a stack of business cards to file away. IMTS 2026 runs September 14-19 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The show occupies all four buildings — North, South, East and West — across Level 3, with confer
What Closing the Information Gap Actually Looks Like (opens the original)
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In my last column, I described a shop owner who held off on an aluminum purchase because the pricing signal from his supplier reached him too late. What could have been a warning turned into two questionable decisions. I called this the information gap, and said Gardner was rebuilding Manufacturing Connected this summer to close it. MC is live now, and I have an obvious interest in telling you it works. Weigh what follows accordingly — starting with this claim: MC ought to behave differently, no
He Built a Machine Shop on a Working Cattle Farm (Video) (opens the original)
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A cattle farm and a precision CNC shop — same property, same owner, Cox's Creek, Kentucky. Jeff Lewis was born on 380 acres in Cox's Creek, Kentucky, and he has never left. He started welding broken farm equipment in a tobacco barn for himself and his neighbors, bought his first machine tool, taught himself to run it, and kept going. Today, Integrity Tool occupies a building on that same property, machining die inserts to ±0.0004" for major automotive OEMs while cattle graze outside the shop win
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