MMS Blog

15 Sep 2002

Convenience Shopping At The Steel Store

When you need a large order of 01, A2, D2, S7, or some other grade of tool steel, you can get just about anything you need from one of the regional warehouses of this company, which claims to be the largest tool steel supplier in the world.

Shop Management Software 15 Sep 2002

Automating Time Studies

This company has created a system that replaces the stopwatch and clipboard system of time study and the manual data transfer and analysis process.

Holemaking 15 Sep 2002

Boring Bar Adjusts In The Cut

Firms that do a lot of boring of gear boxes, valves, castings and other complex components on horizontal boring mills, floor-type boring mills and similar horizontal-spindle machines should be interested in Controlled Boring Bars and Contouring Heads.

High-Speed Machining 15 Sep 2002

Automating The Mold Shop

This shop produces dies and molds around the clock 7 days a week, yet most of the time no one is there.

Milling Tools 15 Sep 2002

High Speed Machining Of Dies And Molds (Revisited)

A new machine may not be needed— just changes in the process.

2 Sep 2002

Volume III, Issue IX

Online Training Model Makes Strides Whether you're an owner, a manager or a shopfloor metalworking professional, you know that training is critical to keeping your business—and you—competitive. The advantages of a well-trained workforce or a strong foundation of solid metalworking skills and knowledge can often determine if you're successful or "not good enough.

15 Jul 2002

Rethinking Machine Tool Spindles

Through extensive research involving more than 4,000 individual tests, this company determined that unequal air pressure - caused by the location of ports around the circumference of a spindle's seals - creates adjacent zones of high and low pressure inside the seal.

CNC & Machine Controls 15 Jul 2002

DNC With A Direction

A small shopfloor network lays the groundwork for large-scale, low-cost DNC throughout a major manufacturing facility.

CAD/CAM 15 Jul 2002

Plugging Into STEP NC

CAM software companies are offering software programs that allow their users to read STEP-NC files into their existing CAM software to generate the tool path and output for specific CNC machines. These "plug-ins" make many of the benefits of STEP-NC available to the average machine shop today.

Turning Machines 15 Jul 2002

Korea Shows It Can

Machine tool builders in Korea have been playing a catch-up game for the past decade. A review of current developments in machine tool technology indicates that Korea is rapidly pulling up with manufacturers in Japan, Europe and the United States. The products from Korea closely match their counterparts from other global suppliers in terms of capability and quality.

CAD/CAM 15 Jul 2002

Breaking The CAM Logjam

A manufacturer of metal stampings bridges the gap between generations of hardware and software.

Aerospace 1 Jul 2002

Curvilinear Tool Paths For Pocket Machining

Recognizing the limitations of traditional approaches to pocketing, mathematicians at The Boeing Company have developed a system for generating tool paths that are better suited to pocketing at high feed rates. The same tool paths have demonstrated their usefulness at lower feed rates as well.

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