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Production Machining Center Integrates Rotary Transfer Concepts
A new machine platform combines CNC rotary transfer philosophy with machining center principles to offer an alternative to stand-alone production lines and flexible machining systems.
Read MoreExploring Niches With New EDM Technologies
A shop specializing in wire EDM for large mold components now offers EDM “turning” of small, intricate parts. Despite the potential risks involved in early adoption of new technologies, the shop believes this practice gives it a leg-up on the competition and lets it gain experience with alternative machining techniques before offering them to customers.
Read MoreNeed To Borrow? Mind The Basics
Taking the basic steps to make your business attractive to a lender is especially important given today’s tough credit situation.
Read MoreHow to Hone an Atypical Aluminum Alloy
Hypereutectic aluminum used for engine blocks contains silicon particles that must be exposed during cylinder honing. This can be done using a cushioning, elastomer honing tool that allows individual abrasive particles to “bounce” over the silicon particles.
Read MoreExtreme Machining Contest Winners
The inaugural edition of Mori Seiki’s Innovation of the Americas contest took place in 2006. Winning entries in that contest ranged from a tiny Jeep replica, which was made from three materials, to a titanium splice plate for a Boeing 737 winglet. Click here to find photos of the first- and second-place winners in
Read MoreSignificant Change, Same Focus
What’s changed is the magazine’s size and look. What hasn’t changed is the type of content you’ve grown to expect from us.
Read MoreHydraulic Workholding Devices Allow Total-Perimeter Machining
Having access to the entire perimeter of a part minimizes set ups because shops can machine five sides of the part in one fixturing. This enables shops to reduce the total number of manufacturing operations, the number of times parts must be handled, the potential for part damage due to excessive handling and the o
Read MoreElectrical Discharge Saw Slices Through Hard Alloys
Electrical discharge sawing uses spark-erosion technology and is said to create blanks from exotic alloys as much as 70 percent faster than wire EDM.
Read MoreIntroducing The Advanced Manufacturing Center(2)
Modern Machine Shop and its publisher, Gardner Publications, will have what we think is the coolest booth experience we’ve ever presented at IMTS. We’ve named our 60 by 90-foot booth at the entrance to the new West Hall the Advanced Manufacturing Center , presented by Boeing , the University of Sheffield’s Advanc
Read MoreManaging Information Maximizes Efficiency
Using an intuitive, homegrown MRP system, this shop is able to effectively manage massive amounts of information while making necessary documents accessible anywhere they’re needed on the shop floor.
Read MoreMaking Connections And Decisions At IMTS 2008
IMTS is the Big Daddy of metalworking trade shows in North America. The biennial show is sponsored by AMT—The Association For Manufacturing Technology and is held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. IMTS 2008, the 27th show edition, will display the wares of more than 1,500 manufacturing equipment makers sprea
Read MoreEnd It With A Different Question
Machinists rank second behind engineers on Manpower’s 2008 list of the 10 hardest jobs to fill in the United States. Huge surprise, right? Our industry’s dearth of skilled labor sometimes presents shops and manufacturers with the unenviable task of vetting (and then training) young candidates that have
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