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MMS Blog
Choosing The Right Bar Feeder
Take a look at some of the options, and find out how some shops make their decisions.
Read MoreAir-Powered High Speed Spindle
Two different designs for this spindle allow it to be mounted on a lathe's turret or slide (like an add-on live-tool spindle) or mounted in a machining center's toolholder. In either case, the spindle is capable of 30,000 rpm. When driven by an 80-psig shop air supply, the spindle can deliver 75 W of cutting power.
Read MoreTurning Turned On End
Inverted-spindle vertical turning machines take on horizontal chuckers for turning cell applications.
Read MoreIMTS—An Educational Opportunity
It's early September of an even numbered year, and for those of us in metalworking trades, that can mean only one thing—IMTS. Every two years the best minds in our industry gather in Chicago.
Read MoreWhat's Wrong With This Picture? On The Care And Feeding Of Master Rings And Other Metrology Artifacts
Quality assurance can only be as good as the measuring tools it relies on. It should be obvious that if you spend tens of thousands of dollars on a measuring machine, you need to protect this investment with routine maintenance and calibration.
Read MoreWhat's Old, New Or Real?
I remember one of the Star Trek movies, in which Kirk asks Scotty to perform an especially difficult technological miracle to save the Enterprise. Scotty replies, "Captain, I can't change the laws of physics.
Read MoreDeep Thinking About Depth Gages And Their Evolution
A depth gage is a very common hand tool used to inspect the depth of holes, slots, counterbores, recesses or the distance from one surface to another. They are especially common in the tool and die industry.
Read MoreMaking The First Cut
Almost every shop has a metalcutting saw. However, many of these shops may be missing a throughput reduction opportunity by under-utilizing this cut-off step in the manufacturing process. Here's how one shop integrates precision sawing in its part production flow.
Read MoreAutomatic Toolchanger For Auxiliary Spindles
For many shops, machine tools designed and dedicated to high speed milling are too expensive or too limited in productive capacity to justify. One approach around this constraint has been to mount an auxiliary spindle alongside the main spindle on a standard vertical machining center.
Read MoreEDM vs. Milling In Die/Mold Machining
In many die and mold shops, the choice between ram EDM and CNC milling is far less clear than it used to be. Changing technology is changing the rules.
Read MoreProduction Without Paper
Giving operators electronic access to job information was the first step. Letting operators electronically refine that information came next.
Read MoreHold Multiple Parts In One Vise
Traditionally, machine tool buyers have relied heavily on machine tool distributors for advice on buying the equipment best suited to their particular needs. In today's Internet age, however, the buyer has unprecedented access to a world of information with which to make informed purchase decisions.
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