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MMS Blog
Doing Away With Coolant Disposal
This shop installed a series of improvements that eliminated spent coolant waste.
Read MoreB-Axis Turn/Mills Have Their Place
The additional rotary milling axis on these machines allows them to complete many types of complex parts in a single setup, but these machines have gained a reputation for being difficult to program. Today’s CAM software, however, eases the programming challenge significantly.
Read MoreRolling Threads Has Advantages
With macros and canned cycles resident in the CNC on most contemporary turning centers, single point turning of OD threads can seem like almost a default process decision. However, for numerous applications, OD thread rolling has inherent advantages as an alternative to cutting threads.
Read MoreVolume IV, Issue IXX
Ruminations and Ramblings, Web-Wise It’s been a busy year for Hardinge. The venerable American machine tool and workholding supplier absorbed the stalwart Bridgeport line and delivered its first machine to the market, all while maintaining its Hardinge lines of machining, workholding and grinding solutions.
Read MoreIt's Working!
A few months ago, Congress passed the Bush tax cut package. Among the bill’s many provisions was a new 50 percent expensing allowance for machine tools and other equipment ordered between May 6, 2003, and December 31, 2004, and placed in service by that last date.
Read MoreSurpassing The Speed Limit In CGI
Advancing rotary-insert machining may have implications for other difficult materials as well.
Read MoreUnderstanding Surface Location Error
Change your speed by a few hundred rpm and the tool’s effective cutting radius may change.
Read MoreSweet, Sweet Spot
For this aerospace job shop, harmonizing key aspects of each high speed machining process creates a "sweet spot" where productivity jumps. Harmonizing other key aspects of shop operations also creates a "sweet spot" that helps the company capitalize on this jump in machining productivity.
Read MoreLending A Hand To The Handbook
A software calculator offers speed, feed and depth of cut values that recognize the distinctive characteristics of a high speed cut.
Read MoreHigh Speed Machining = Automation
Strategic use of labor, not the speed itself, is the point of HSM.
Read MoreMicro Milling At 1/2 Million RPM
Researchers aim to develop a spindle that accounts for the differences between macro and micro machining.
Read MoreThinking Outside The Cut
A Silicon Valley manufacturer's survival strategy involves closer relationships with customers, and high speed machining is crucial to this. The shop pays particular attention to the process factors that affect high speed machining before the cut takes place.
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