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The New Rules of Cutting Tools — Rule #4: Focus on the Biggest Expense
Labor and machine time are where the real costs occur. The tool cost is tiny compared to the savings it delivers in these areas.
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How To Machine Composites, Part 4 -- Drilling Composites
Achieving acceptable tool life and hole quality in a material such as CFRP demands a drill designed with composites in mind.
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Turning The Tough Stuff
One of this aerospace shop’s many specialties is producing ring-shaped parts that are thin-walled, complex, tightly toleranced and made of difficult-to-machine materials such as Inconel, titanium or high-temperature alloys. Turning jet engine parts doesn’t get much tougher than this.
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The New Rules of Cutting Tools — Rule #5: Consider the Cutting Tool at the Start
Are you specifying the right machine? You can’t know until you know what tools you will use.
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How To Machine Composites, Part 5 -- Waterjet Cutting
For trimming composite parts, this shop describes where it uses machining centers and where it uses waterjet.
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Composites Keep A Big Machine Busy
On-machine inspection is part of the way this shop machines large composite structures efficiently.
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Could The Highest Price Cutter Be The Least Expensive?
An evaluation of different cutting tool technologies for machining carbon fiber reinforced plastics
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Managing Information Maximizes Efficiency
Using an intuitive, homegrown MRP system, this shop is able to effectively manage massive amounts of information while making necessary documents accessible anywhere they’re needed on the shop floor.
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Automated From The Start
Turning automation helps this shop produce parts more efficiently.
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Making Connections And Decisions At IMTS 2008
IMTS is the Big Daddy of metalworking trade shows in North America. The biennial show is sponsored by AMT—The Association For Manufacturing Technology and is held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. IMTS 2008, the 27th show edition, will display the wares of more than 1,500 manufacturing equipment makers sprea
Read MoreAchieving Metal-Like Tolerances In Composite Parts
On-machining probing compensates for uncertainty in machining operations in composites
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