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CNC Machining Considerations for Aerospace Electronics Enclosures
Enclosures are the underappreciated CNC machined components for aerospace and defense. Unmanned systems are making them more important. Watch this video…
Aug 21
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Peter Zelinski
Quality Standards Are Not About Excellence but Productivity (The Z Axis)
How Allied Cycle Works got everyone to see paint the same way. The story has implications for any organization slowed down by the subjective differences…
Aug 20
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Peter Zelinski
How AI Enables 20X Faster CT Scanning
Can CT scanning fill a role in production validation similar to the CMM?
Aug 13
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Peter Zelinski
Designing for Production Scale in Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
SLS is the "seconds matter" additive manufacturing process, because it is the AM process capable of delivering large quantities of parts into the…
Aug 11
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Peter Zelinski
As Manufacturing Technology Advances, Humans Become More Important
"The Z Axis" visits CNC machining cutting tool maker Fullerton Tool in Saginaw, Michigan.
Aug 6
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Peter Zelinski
July 2026
The New Age for AM: Statistics-Based Qualification of LPBF Production
“Manufacturing Unlimited” visits ADDMAN. The company now has sufficient scale and data history to shift qualification to a method more like GRR…
Jul 30
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Peter Zelinski
5 Tactics for Carbide Tool Cost Control in an Aerospace and Defense Machine Shop
Advance CNC Machining sees the instability of cutting tool costs as a structural change. Here are moves the shop has made to buffer machined part cost…
Jul 29
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Peter Zelinski
How to Reduce Cost in SLS 3D Printing
Why simple design changes bring major savings.
Jul 28
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Peter Zelinski
3D Printer Filament: Made in America
Specifically, made in Arkansas. What does it take to succeed with a (seemingly) commodity product made in the USA?
Jul 23
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Peter Zelinski
The Timeliness of Cold Metal Fusion: Low-Cost SLS Machines Can Make High-Value Metal Parts
Cold Metal Fusion is the process for tricking a polymer selective laser sintering (SLS) machine into making metal parts. On Manufacturing Unlimited, we…
Jul 16
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Peter Zelinski
What Kind of Production Is Best Suited to U.S. Manufacturing? (The Z Axis first episode!)
From carbon dreams to machining reality. Getting real about reshoring with Allied Cycle Works.
Jul 9
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Peter Zelinski
In Additive (Particularly SLS), Strength Is a Design Decision
Conventional processes have trained us to think of it as a material property, but the design freedom of additive includes freedom to tailor the part for…
Jul 8
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Peter Zelinski
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