MMS Blog

Grinding

Advanced Grinding, Plain and Simple

Advanced grinding equipment gives this shop the flexibility and automation it needs to serve customers with either rapid-response or high-volume jobs.

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Micro-Cooperation

The photo shows a 0.0004-inch-diameter end mill. (Photo courtesy Performance Micro Tool.) Micro-scale milling is, in many ways, a different process from milling at conventional sizes.

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Die/Mold

Video: Hard Pocket Milling

Relieved end mills and pre-machining of corners are two important considerations for accurate pocket machining in hard steel.

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Video: What is The Edge Factor - Teaser

The Edge Factor is a show that will tell real stories of real CNC machining.

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Automation

Rapid OD Gaging—via Robot

Autonetics of Chapel Hill, North Carolina is a manufacturing automation specialist, but chief technology officer Chris Wezyk says the specialty is more nuanced than that.

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Optimism and Willingness to Invest in Capital Rise Together

The latest “30-second survey” conducted by Modern Machine Shop shows that more than 23 percent of respondents say they are very likely to buy capital equipment in the next 12 months.

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Take the CNC and Walk Away

Datron Dynamics believes that its new D5 Dental Mill is the only machining center in the world to be controlled by an Apple iPad.

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October MBI at 60.1 – 15th Consecutive Month of Growth

With a reading of 60.1, the MBI showed that the metalworking industry continues to grow at a strong pace.

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Confessions of a Rivet Counter

Manufacturers must pay attention to detail because their customers do.

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All the Ways Waterjet Works

Waterjet is arguably the most “fluid” metalcutting process.

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The Auto Bailout was the Right Move

Though my gut told me the government shouldn’t bail out the auto industry, self-interest (36 years in machine tools) may have influenced my grudging support.

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Holemaking

Balancing Act

Lathe spindle balancing enables this shop to turn key features of castings rather than performing boring or facing operations on a mill.

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