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Industry’s First General Purpose, High Performance Tap
(Sponsored Content) MultiTAP from Emuge is the industry’s first high performance tap designed to cut a wide range of materials including carbon steel, steel alloys, stainless steel, aluminum, cast iron, copper, brass, and bronze. MultiTAP is also uniquely designed to produce threads within both 2B and 3B classes of fit, eliminating the guesswork of calculating H-limits.
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In the Strongest Companies, the Only Constant is Change
Perhaps more than at any previous IMTS, the strongest growing metalworking companies that attended this year’s show were looking for change.
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IMTS 2010 Is Retired Exec’s 24th Show
Albert Albrecht holds his recent book about the machine tool industry in the United States.
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Accurate Five-Axis
Mitsui Seiki's Vertex 750-5X is a scaled-up version of its successful high speed, high precision five-axis vertical machining center.
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Extra Security for Milling Titanium
The weak link in heavy milling of titanium is often the toolholder.
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Life-Sized (and Lifelike) Virtual Employees
Virtual employees offer greetings at every corner of the Makino booth.
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Give Me a Show of Hands
It’s accepted pretty universally that metalworkers are tough hombres.
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Good Old-Fashioned High Tech
What’s this 1930’s lathe built by Moody in Quebec, Canada doing in Heidenhain’s IMTS booth?
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Through-Insert Coolant Delivery Introduced
The cutaway model of an insert shows the channels for coolant delivery.
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Give That CMM a Rest—Let the Probe do the Work
Using the motion of the head rather than the CMM axes can enable users to take point measurements faster and more accurately, the company says.
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Analyzing the Actual Impact of Tooling
Shops often wonder why, when a cutting tool offers a cycle time reduction, the shop does not necessarily realize the savings.
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Haas Automation—"Your Roots are Showing"
Haas Automation began producing rotary tables in 1983 and a few years later moved into machine tool manufacturing.
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