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mmsonline.com This month on mmsonline.com VIDEO: SHOPFLOOR PRACTICES AT A TOP SHOP Our Top Shops benchmarking survey includes Honors Program awards for the survey's four main categories. WSI Industries, a contract shop located in Monticello, Minnesota, is the 2013 Honors Program winner in the Shopfloor Practices category. A video at short.mmsonline.com/wsi highlights examples of the shopfloor processes and value-adding services it applies to maximize efficiency and workflow. GEAR PRODUCTION ZONE LAUNCHED MMS Online has launched a Gear Production Zone covering all phases of gear manufacturing. Visit the new Zone at mmsonline.com/zones/gear for gear-related ar ticles, video and product information. A Supplement to Modern Machine Shop & MoldMaking Technology NEW Possibilities for Medical Innovation Spinal implant with bone integration layer grown through AM DIGITAL EDITION: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Additive Manufacturing, the quarterly supplement to Mode rn Machine Shop and MoldMak ing Technology, is also available in a digital format that can be read on a tablet, smar tphone or computer. Visit additivemanufacturinginsight.com and click the "digital library" link to access all the digital editions of the supplement, including the most recent issue from August 2013. FROM THE BLOG: IS AUTOMATION A JOB KILLER? MMS Extra is Modern Machine Shop's free email newsletter. To subscribe, visit mmsonline.com/extra. 10 MMS September 2013 mmsonline.com Automation—one of the focuses of this month's issue—is often blamed for loss of jobs and increased unemployment. Earlier this year, CBS news program "60 Minutes" even aired a segment titled "March of the Machines" to that effect. But is automation really a job killer? Watch the segment and read commentary from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) and Editor Matt Danford at short.mmsonline.com/60minutes.