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Making Connections at Innovation Days
Among other highlights, this year’s iteration of DMG MORI’s annual open house event showcased the company’s latest efforts to connect traditionally disparate machining operations, both in the physical sense and the virtual sense.
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There Are Benefits to Being Social
Social media is becoming more popular for shops to market their business. It’s also enabling me to find shops to profile in our magazine.
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Buying a VMC: The Basics of Spindle Speeds and Tapers
What’s the difference between CAT, BT and HSK tapers? These and other questions are important when considering a new vertical machining center.
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Flat Honing Advances with In-Process Measurement
Single-sided machining with a grinding wheel now offers a more productive alternative to single-sided lapping and polishing processes. The key is an in-process measurement system that enables a flat honing machine to adjust wheel pressure automatically for consistent results.
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Turret Added to Five-Axis Bar-Fed Milling Machine
This bar-fed mill features a nine-station turret in addition to a five-axis milling spindle. That way, turning can be performed on the bar while the milling spindle performs backworking on a parted-off workpiece.
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From Universal Tool Clamping to Automated Presetting
The opening of Rego-Fix's new U.S. headquarters caps a long series of developments in precision tool clamping technology.
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What are the Benefits of Variable Gaging?
Although more expensive, gages are a better solution than measuring instruments for higher-volume production runs and tighter tolerances.
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Standards Close the Loop
Artificial intelligence is an up-and-coming application enabled by the Industrial Internet of Things.
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Tooling Is the Underappreciated AM Application
One of the significant impacts of industrial 3D printing will be its aid to conventional production.
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Entry-Level Option for Machine Automation
This new modular handling system for Hermle machine tools is designed for shops that don’t necessarily need a complex and expensive robotic system, and it converts stand-alone machines into flexible manufacturing cells.
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Mill’s “Oil Shroud” Virtually Eliminates Dust in Graphite Machining
Amerimold 2017: EDM Network will exhibit the HM43GT graphite mill, which features an optional “oil shroud” that virtually eliminates the dust common to graphite milling.
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Manufacturing News of Note: May 2017
AME opens an engineering training department, Kapp Niles launches a new metrology business and more industry news.
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