We sometimes wonder if designers ever actually use their own products, or even put them through some sort of human-factors testing before putting them on the market. Consider the mechanism that ...

Shops often purchase manual knee mills for prototype, toolroom or onesy-twoesy work. And, a lot of knee mills find their way into training programs. However, besides digital readout and axis power ...

Power Ott Jakob drawbars from Advanced Machine & Engineering, Rockford, Ill. (ame.com), use hydraulics in a modular system to hold cutting tools securely in place. The device lets users quickly change ...