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MMS Blog
April Machine Tool Sales Show Accelerating Growth
According to USMTC, machine tool sales in April were 48% (units) and 123% (dollars) more than in April 2009.
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Video: Pocketing Steel - 0.100” DOC
(Sponsored Content) This video demonstrates Dapra's 1" Toroid End Mill executing a pocketing routine in steel. The material is 4140PH (30 Rc), and the machine tool used is a Fadal 4020 with a 40-taper spindle with 0.100" DOC.
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Drilling with Modulation Delivers Pecks for Free
A system for center drilling on Swiss-types and other small lathes oscillates the drill up to 1,000 times per second. Cycle time, part quality and predictability all improve.
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Video: Modulation Assisted Machining
This footage shows the effect of a techology that speeds and simplifies center drilling by oscillating the drill through many pecks per second.
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What It Takes for Oilfield Success
Hunt and Hunt’s president says adopting turn/mill machines was one of the most challenging endeavors his 55-year-old shop ever undertook. He also says it’s the best thing the shop could have done to become more efficient at contract work.
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Taking on Titanium
The challenge for the aerospace machine shop is to produce titanium parts productively and profitably. The challenge for the machine tool builder is to help such shops meet this challenge.
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Machining Titanium for Today’s Advanced Aircraft
Several Global Titanium Day attendees were chosen to take flight in a reproduction of the Wright Brothers Model B Military Flyer.
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Exceeding My Expectations
Here is a close-up of the precision machined parts floating in the barrel of a pen.
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Shops Finding a Role for Additive Manufacturing
This metal assembly was made by Mark Two’s innovative rapid manufacturing process.
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In-Country Outsourcing
Art Whelan is a senior vice president with Logistics Plus of Erie, Pennsylvania.
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