MMS Blog
A Hollow-Access Unit for Wire EDM
By simultaneously rotating and tilting the workpiece, this rotary tilt/turn hollow-access device from Hirschmann enables the EDM wire to cut complex openings that may have different paths at the top and bottom of the opening.
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Wire EDM for Dressing Metal-Bonded Wheels
The Studer WireDress system, which uses the wire “spark erosion process” to dress a metal-bonded grinding wheel while it is still mounted in the grinder, makes using these wheels more efficient and economical.
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Getting in Touch with Optimal EDM Results
Makino’s Hyper i control for wire EDM uses touchscreen navigation in its user interface, which helps a basic user to match the productivity and capability of an experienced operator.
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What to Know about Torque Motors
Torque motors are commonly used in indexing tables on machine tools. This succinct article helps you evaluate this and other applications in which power transmission for rotation calls for the advantages of a torque motor.
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See Inside with CT Scanning
CT scanning—the same imaging technique used in the medical field—makes it possible to nondestructively inspect and measure manufactured parts. However, special considerations must be made for workpieces made of dense materials.
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Making it in Medical
Here are the challenges that modern medical machine shops face and how they have helped shape this shop in particular.
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Video: 1964 Game Show Demos Drilling through Human Hair
See a clip of the founder of Maryland’s National Jet on the “I’ve Got a Secret” game show demonstrating his company’s ability to drill through something as small as a human hair.
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Domestic Energy to Save $22 Billion for U.S. Manufacturers
The role of reduced energy costs will continue to contribute to the United States being attractive for manufacturing, report says.
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Digital Thread Boosts Data-Driven Manufacturing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is initiating a project to demonstrate how a standardized 3D model of a product can integrate and streamline production from initial design through final inspection in a continuous, coherent data-driven process.
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New CNC Machining Podcast
Two leaders of Chicago-area metalworking-focused companies partner to create what might be the only audio program dedicated to the work and business of CNC machining.
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Video: C-Axis Interpolation for Turning on a Machining Center
Controlling spindle revolution in time with the helical feed enables a single-point tool to “turn” the bore of this part.
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December 2014 Metalworking Business Index (MBI) at 52.1
With a reading of 52.1, the Gardner Business Index showed that the metalworking industry grew for the 12th consecutive month and the 14th time in 15 months. December’s rate of expansion was the fastest since August, and the rate of expansion accelerated slightly throughout the fourth quarter of 2014.
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