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Threading On A Lathe
The right choices in tooling and technique can optimize the thread turning process.
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The Strategic Value of Machine Tool Flexibility
This aerospace and defense supplier has a strategy to take advantage of the flexibility in its newest and largest five-axis gantry-type machining center.
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Understanding Swiss-Type Machining
Once seen as a specialty machine tool, the CNC Swiss-type is increasingly being used in shops that are full of more conventional CNC machines. For the newcomer to Swiss-type machining, here is what the learning curve is like.
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What to Do When Five-Axis Machining Is Off the Table
For Fischer USA, 3+2 machining with a high-precision rotary table adds flexibility without the cost of a full five-axis machine.
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Automation Solutions Optimized for High-Mix Manufacturing
IMTS22: Fastems debuts its Flexible Pallet Tower (FPT), an automation solution for APC and no-APC four and five-axis machining centers.
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Metalworking Expansion Steadily Slows
All components of metalworking activity contributed to the slowdown, most of them for the second month in a row.
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All-Around Mill Improves Productivity and Cost for Valve Job
Adopting a mill with a double-negative rake and pockets compatible with multiple insert geometries enabled Progressive Metal Service to increase feed and lower scrap rates for a valve.
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Ball-End Tool Contours, Chamfers and Finishes in One Pass for Most Materials
The new IMCO Carbide Tool Pow•R•Arc end mill, to be shown at IMTS 2022, emphasizes speed. The cutter is able to run and increase feed rates to machine one’s mold up to five times faster than a four-flute tool.
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What Are the Limits to Make-to-Order Manufacturing?
Automated storage and retrieval system maker Modula produces a product with 2,000 parts and hundreds of variations that has to be completed within a customer’s site. Here is a picture of what is possible in making a product tailored to the customer.
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Understanding CNC Machine Accuracy and Repeatability
Properly evaluating machine tool capability requires understanding how the both user and the builder can influence precision.
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When Automating a Task Beats Automating the Process
A medical manufacturer proves why a high mix of complex work need not deter any manufacturer from automation, whether via robot or pallet system.
Read MoreTop Shops on Display at IMTS
Join the Modern Machine Shop team and Top Shops Honorees to hear the latest benchmarking data and learn how they have innovated within their organizations and worked through the same struggles you may be experiencing.
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