Articles

Smooth Technology Is New Concept for CNC

Smooth Technology is the umbrella term Mazak (Florence, Kentucky) is using to describe its new concept for the programming and control of complex, multi-axis machine tools.

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Turning Tools

Video Highlights Extreme Part-Off Demos

The strength of a tough part-off tool is shown in video showing it parting off a railroad rail and sledgehammer head. Talk about significant interrupted cuts…

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Video: Applying “Dengeln” for Finishing Turbine Blades

This alternative to grinding, polishing and shot peening enables turbine blades to be machined and polished in one setup.

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Oil & Gas

Adopting a 24/7 Mindset

This shop considered a number of factors before establishing an effective process to run an HMC cell around the clock for applications in aerospace, oilfield and other industries.

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Grinding

Video: The HardFinisher from Praewema

New technology from Praewema enables a host of processes to be performed on one machine, using two spindles to cut teeth on internal or external gears.

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Workholding

Video: Re-Use Soft Jaws with Expanding Pins

When tool-and-die and contract machine shop Baklund R&D developed a workholding device to solve a challenge with one of its own jobs, the company realized it potentially had a solution that could benefit many other shops as well.

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Video: What Is Additive Manufacturing?

What is additive manufacturing's role? What sort of parts are made through additive manufacturing? And will this process replace machining? Peter Zelinski responds to these and other questions.

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Forecasting the Future at GFMC

AMT’s annual forecasting conference uses past and present trends to help attendees prepare for the future.

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2015 Machine Tool Consumption Forecast – Up 37 Percent

Since two significantly down years after the financial collapse in the fall of 2008, machine tool consumption has been quite strong, performing at or above the historical average market. But 2015 looks to be the best post-recession year yet. According to the Gardner Research Capital Spending Survey and Forecast, metalcutting machine tool consumption will increase 37% next year.

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Developing the Cover's Cool Caliper

Here’s how the September cover of Modern Machine Shop came to be.

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Improvement Is Not Optional

No matter how busy this shop gets, it continues to pull teams of employees out of production so they can focus on solving problems to make incremental process changes. The advances add up. Today, this is a very different shop than it once was.

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Start with the Specs

Techspex has a new website and new capabilities. In place of a word-based search engine, this free utility aims to be the logical starting point for searches aimed specifically at finding the right machine tool.

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