Articles

IMTS 2018: Destination Innovation

Whatever path your manufacturing operation may take, the largest metalworking event in North America can help light the way.

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Holemaking

Tips for Thread Milling Tricky Materials

Compared to tapping, thread-milling technology offers advantages for creating threads in challenging materials, such as tool steel, stainless steel and high-temperature alloys. Here are a few tips for establishing an effective thread-milling process in those materials.

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Good Leaders Have the Difficult Conversations

Talking to someone about their work performance or behavior is never easy, but it must be done.

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Basics

Buying a Lathe: Spindles and Tailstocks

A key consideration when buying a new turning machine involves its spindle. Here’s an overview of what you need to know. 

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Turning Machines

What Is Single-Lobe Peeling?

A manufacturer of large turn-mill machines has developed a bar-peeling process to complete large, progressive cavity pump rotors in one setup.

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Holemaking

Collet Chucks Overcome Distortion for Automated Gear Machining

To accommodate its customers’ need for just-in-time orders of small batches of gears, this company’s automated manufacturing cells rely on collet chucks that overcome a common distortion issue arising from tapping and heat treatment. 

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Grinding

July 2018 Product Spotlight: Grinding

This month’s Modern Equipment Review Spotlight focuses on various grinding machines and equipment for all sorts of applications. 

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Robotics Is at the "KORE" of STEM Education

The Kuka Official Robot Education (KORE) program presents high schools, technical centers, community colleges and universities with the support and opportunity to incorporate certificate-based robot education on Kuka products.

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Basics

The Modular Multi-Gage Concept

Modular, multi-gage measuring devices work with a wide range of workpieces and and are ideal for short-run production in which flexibility and change-over are key.

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Additive, Data-Driven Technology Advance Aerospace Manufacturing

In addition to economic forces, the technologies shaping the future of manufacturing show particularly significant promise for manufacturers of aircraft parts.

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10 Takeaways about the Industrial Internet of Things

What will it look like for manufacturing to embrace and make use of interconnected hardware? Here are some clues.

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Turning Tools

Using Cameras to Align Tools and Spindles on Swiss-Type Lathes

Installing cameras in the spindles of a Swiss-type lathe can simplify the alignment of tools with the main and subspindles as well as the alignment of those spindles with each other.

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