What We're Watching: A Machinist Tours 10 Entry-Level Mills at IMTS 2026
With so many machines on the market, choosing the right one is hard enough. Factor in specific applications, part sizes, and floor space, and it gets even harder, especially for shops adding their first mill or equipping a training program.
In this week's What We're Watching, machinist Audacity Micro walks the IMTS 2026 show floor in Chicago to find every entry-level milling machine on display. He stops by Tormach, Haas, Hurco, Dynapath, and others, showing you the differences in features, capabilities, footprint, and more to show which options make sense for new machinists and the shops training them.
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Laura Davis
Editor-in-Chief, New Equipment Digest
Laura Davis is the editor in chief of New Equipment Digest (NED), a brand part of the Manufacturing Group at EndeavorB2B. NED covers all products, equipment, solutions, and technology related to the broad scope of manufacturing, from mops and buckets to robots and automation.
Laura has been a manufacturing product writer for nine years, knowledgeable about the ins and outs of the industry, along with what readers are looking for when wanting to learn about the latest products on the market.