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CAD/CAM

Ballnose Alternative Shines in Five-Axis Finishing

Large cutting edge radii facilitate higher-stepover passes that improve surface finish and reduce cycle time.

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Workholding

Sizing Up Rotary Table Advantages

Smaller may be better when it comes to rotary tables that enable a three-axis VMC to do five-axis machining.

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Milling Tools

Additive Manufacturing Makes Subtractive Cutting Tools

Mapal reaps the benefits of additive and subtractive manufacturing with its QTD drills.

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Workholding

Workholding Cuts Setup Time for Cylindrical Gears

A new generation of modular, quick-change workholding systems requiring fewer tools, less time and minimal operator experience has arrived.

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Turn/Mill

Closed-Loop Gear Production

A familiar concept is now gaining serious traction, enabling manufacturers to develop closed-loop cells that automatically match the finished product to design concept goals.

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Divisions Achieve Synergy Making Gears, Repairing Gearboxes

In addition to offering gearbox maintenance and repair services, this company is an OEM of new gears, harnessing the synergy between the two somewhat disparate divisions to the benefit of the overall enterprise.

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Get out the Vote for Manufacturing Education

A group of local manufacturers is pairing with teams from various high schools on a video competition that aims to educate students, teachers and parents about industry career opportunities. Today is the last day to vote!

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Freedom in Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing

The wire-fed EBAM process offers flexibility in part geometry and size—as well as material properties.

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Waterjet, Laser, or EDM... or Another Option?

The pros and cons of each process have been covered before, but at least one supplier’s technology bucks the trend.

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Improving a Popular Mill-Turn Control

Gear hobbing capabilities, enhanced graphics and the ability to perform interpolation turning have been added to this well-known mill-turn control.

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Five-Axis

The Subtle Clue That a Spindle Is About to Fail

A shop that regularly replaces its spindles found the indicator predicting when this replacement would be needed.

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Automation

Amerimold: of Interest Well Beyond Mold Manufacturing

Amerimold, the event for mold manufacturing, takes place June 15-16 in Novi, Michigan, at the Suburban Collection Showplace. Specific topics include mold design; lights-out machining; shopfloor automation; tooling and workholding; EDM; five-axis machining; mold maintenance; and material selection.

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