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MMS Blog
The Shop With A Nervous System
Automatically recording and distributing information about what's happening while a machine tool is in operation leads to process improvements and higher productivity for this aircraft manufacturer.
Read MoreWhat Is Single Point OD Grinding?
Two enabling technologies -- superabrasive wheels and high precision servo control -- come together to provide a contour grinding process that resembles an OD turning operation. For many medium volume OD grinding applications, this method may be a means to consolidate several manufacturing steps into a single setup.
Read MoreKeep Your Spindles Cutting
Machining centers are marvelously flexible tools for getting production efficiency. Moreover, arranging machining centers into affordable, flexible cells allows shops to push the efficiency envelope even further.
Read MoreInterpolating Curves
The ability to import complex curves into CNCs promises to let shops finally get beyond old limitations imposed by contouring with linear interpolation. Faster and smoother cutting will be the result.
Read MoreNew Cutter Gives Better Mold And Die Finishes
New Cutter Gives Better Mold And Die Finishes.
Read MoreNew CAM Technology Links Knowledge And Solid Modeling
Some CAM developers are beginning to integrate the power of solid modeling with intelligent manufacturing applications that "know" how shops want to machine their parts.
Read MoreNew Software Helps Manage Entire Shop
This new venture combines the resources of existing waterjet machining companies across the United States, acting as a single agent through which their services are marketed.
Read MoreLow-Pressure Spraying Coolant System Keeps Prototype Shop Out Of The Fog
Imagine a machine, with parts your shop helped to manufacture, traveling on a one-way trip for millions of miles, to land and gather information on another planet. Now, imagine your coolant ruining all that.
Read MoreOkuma America Introduces Next-Generation CNC Lathe
Machine tool builder Okuma America Corporation has introduced a new CNC lathe to address the growing need for a family of products suited to the needs of both first-time CNC users as well as experienced manufacturers supplying diverse industries with precision turned parts. Designated the Crown, Okuma's lathe offers a high-torque spindle motor, direct-drive headstock, servo-driven tool turret, an ergonomically-configured machine enclosure, and a compact 95. 47 by 69.
Read MoreFlexibility Doesn't Have To Be A Stretch
This company complements automatic machines with a versatile CNC turning center. The strategy provides many of the advantages of a fully flexible process.
Read MoreAcu-Rite Reinvents Its Products And Its Processes
It's a brave company that makes the commitment to obsolete its current product line and bring on-line a new one. As of September first, that's exactly what Acu-Rite (Jamestown, New York) will do. A leading manufacturer of digital readouts (DRO) for thirty years, the company decided in 1995 to begin a process that would replace the entire product line in a single stroke.
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