As more customers seek one-stop shopping for their metal fabrications, more job shops are adding machining capabilities.

Running a small machine shop can lead to a fulfilling career, but the owner or owners need to start the business on the right foot by choosing the best business structure for the new company. Business ...

A small machine shop business can do general metal repair work or it can design prototype pieces for special orders. As the owner you decide what type of work you want to do and then figure out a way ...

Depending on its output, a machine shop’s loadout details will vary from one operation to the next. Still, many of the health risks are universal, appearing in every shop. What are the most common ...

To attract and assist outstanding experimentalists and hands-on undergraduate and graduate students, the physics department maintains a dedicated machine shop to support the research and teaching ...

HEIDENHAIN is a world-leading provider of encoders, machine controls, touch probes, digital readouts and metrology solutions—empowering engineer...READ MORE Top Shops 2023 business strategies honoree ...

Building a good quality machine shop may seem to present a chicken-and-egg problem, at least for anyone not willing to mortgage their home for the money needed to buy all of these tools new. Namely, ...

U.S. machine shops and other manufacturers’ new orders for machine tools are exhibiting the effects of high interest rates, and economic uncertainty in general, according to the latest order summary ...

The latest episode “Made in the USA” podcast explores a company that uses collaborative robots, one of the key tools helping US machine shops and other manufacturers compete with lower cost countries ...

WATERVLIET, NEW YORK, Dec. 31, 2025 – In an exciting effort to boost in-house skills, Watervliet Arsenal machinist ...