Articles
A Production Line Takes Shape
Although Pointe Precision built its reputation on low-volume, high-complexity aerospace and medical parts, its expansive high-volume production line may be its biggest success to date. Sound decision-making and attention to details at every step are the keys to this success.
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Video: Trial Cuts with Ultrasonic-Assisted Machining
Ultrasonic-assisted machining reduces friction in metal cutting to enable a standard tool to cut faster and more smoothly. Video shows comparison cuts of the same machine and tool with and without this new accessory.
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Centerline Issues for Turning Inserts
Tooling experts Mike Fagan and David Grant suspect that many programmers and machinists could use a refresher on the importance and effects of insert alignment in turning operations. This short, amply-illustrated paper is their effort to clear up some of the misunderstanding.
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Good Housekeeping Identifies Visual Accountability
5S is a systematic process of workplace organization. Here's an overview of the five parts.
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Sandvik Coromant Opens Newly Renovated U.S. Headquarters
An event yesterday at Sandvik Coromant's U.S. headquarters in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, celebrated the opening of a new Productivity Center (photo above), part of a now-completed 2-year renovation of this site.
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A Square Hole for a Square Peg
Putting square and rectangular boxes into wedge-shaped slots in a vending system isn’t the best use of the space. A tambour-style system with rectangular columns and adjustable shelving creates slots that better accommodate items with their packaging.
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GF Machining Solutions Opens “Center of Competence” Facility in SoCal
The company’s 106,000-square-foot facility includes machine demonstration space, customer training rooms, and resources for sales, service and applications staff for West Coast customers.
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September 2014 MBI Shows Slowed Expansion
With a reading of 50.9, Gardner’s Metalworking Business Index showed that the industry grew in September for the ninth consecutive month and the 11th time in 12 months, although the rate of expansion was the slowest of 2014.
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Air in Your Favor
Blasting coolant through the spindle and out the end of the cutting tool is a great way to clear chips. Haas Automation’s Through-Tool Air Blast option can be an advantageous alternative.
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Made in Milan: Bi-Mu 2014
With new areas devoted to additive manufacturing and machine tool management technologies, Bi-Mu 2014 was a major hit in Milan, Italy.
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August 2014 MBI Growth Rate Accelerates
With a reading of 52.3, the metalworking industry grew in August for the eighth consecutive month and the 10th time in 11 months.
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OD Turning on a Machining Center
A tool like the one seen here can make it possible to machine precise cylindrical features of an otherwise odd-shaped part to a fine finish without resorting to a lathe.
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