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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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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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From Media to Manufacturing
Video producers with no previous knowledge of CNC discover the power and possibilities of modern machine tool technology. Their example says something about where manufacturing talent might come from, and also about the importance of manufacturing as a whole.
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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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More Accurate Taper Cutting with Wire EDM
Cutting tall, steeply tapered surfaces with wire EDM often creates an overburn situation if the slope of the wire path changes from the top to the bottom of the cut. A feature called Volumetric Taper Compensation with four-axis overburn control compensates for this effect on FANUC wire EDM models from Methods Machine Tools Inc.
Read MoreThe Secret Robot
A manufacturer struggles over its employees’ potential reaction to automation. The struggle itself says something important.
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Ultrasonic-Assisted Machining with Standard Machines and Tools
A system to be marketed in 2015 will apply ultrasonic vibration from within the toolholder to reduce cutting force and improve the performance of the cut.
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