Like many other countries, Italy's machine tool industry has experienced significant drops in machine orders, from both traditional and emerging markets, for most of 2009. However, the end of 2009 ...
The U.S. endured a 36% drop in the number of tool and die shops between 1998 and 2010. Those that remain, like Fiat Chrysler Automotive’s tooling subsidiary, Autodie, have worked to adapt to the ...
Walking through a toolroom, one is struck by the silence. Unlike an automotive plant with its hum and clang, here the work is quiet, meticulous, almost artistic. Yet these jigs, dies and fixtures ...
MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY. FRANK A. SCOTT, a Clevelander at the forefront of the machine tool industry during the early 1900s, once remarked that no metal could be available for modern uses until a ...