Articles

Improving Lighting Quality, Lowering Lighting Costs

Learn about the benefits this manufacturer realized by moving to LED lighting.

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Video: Additive Manufacturing and the Gun Fallacy

This installment in a video series debunking 3D printing misconceptions looks at the notion that the technology is dangerous because it can be used to make firearms.

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Workholding

Changing up From a Manual to an Automatic Pallet Changing System

A Michigan manufacturer describes its progress with pallet-changing systems, advancing from manual to automatic pallet-switching on its VMCs.

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Turning Machines

Modular Turning Center Equipped with Eight Spindles

Index will demonstrate its MS22C-8, a modular eight-spindle automatic CNC turning machine suitable for fast machining, especially of complex parts.

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Going Live on a Vertical Lathe

For this company, investing in live tooling and a high-pressure coolant system on a pair of new CNC vertical lathes eliminated setups, increased throughput and led to safer material handling on the shop floor.

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Getting into Gearing?

Gear designers and machine programmers/operators alike will benefit by attending this training course, where they will gain an understanding of gear noise dynamics.

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Automated Coolant Concentration Management for Multiple Sumps

This system is capable of automatically managing as many as 10 machine sumps from one drum of chemical concentrate.

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Automation

Supply-Side Robotics

It’s not just the promise of automation that drives robot adoption, but also the cost of the technology. Will price declines bring about much more widespread use of robots in manufacturing?

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Automation

Adaptable Automation

A system for automatically swapping both workpieces and workholding enables a robot-loaded VMC to be quickly reconfigured for a new or modified job. The same system lets the robot change jobs in the midst of an unattended run. Thanks to the extra capacity from unattended production, the motorcycle part maker that developed this system has finally stopped shipping products late during the busiest part of its year.

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Secrets to the Art of Hand Scraping

Hand scraping of mating surfaces on a machine tool enables the surfaces to be flatter, more accurately aligned, longer wearing and freer to glide across one another. No automated or mechanical operation can match these benefits. Machine builder Okuma explains how this seeming paradox is true.

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Cutting Tools

Coming Soon: New Duratomic

On April 1, Seco launches an upgrade to its well-known workhorse coated cutting tool line.

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CAD/CAM

CAM Software Enhances AWJ as an Additive Process

Intelli-CAM from Omax Corp is especially tailored for the needs of AWJ machine users. This CAM software provides features that support additive manufacturing applications.

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