EMI provides a variety of engineering services including knowledge-transfer, application development, and machinability testing, which support a customer's efforts to reduce cost, improve quality, and reduce time to market for its machined products. EMI's industry-leading R&D efforts aim to commercialize machining process and tooling technologies that provide end-users with substantial efficiency improvements. EMI's focus is the machining of difficult-to-machine materials, such as titanium, nickel alloys, stainless steels, compacted-graphite iron (CGI), hardened steel, and metal-matrix composites (MMCs). New R&D is addressing other challenging materials and applications involving fiber reinforced polymers, universal chip breaking, and energy efficient chipping of cellulosic biomass.