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An Analytical Approach To The Outsourcing Decision
The decision to manufacture in-house or send work overseas should not be based solely on labor cost. After an honest evaluation of its machining processes, this OEM found it was more profitable to bring work back in-house.
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Multitasking Ram EDM
Multitasking capability is coming to EDM. This ram EDM unit can switch from ram to wire EDM to produce holes as small as 0.03 mm in diameter.
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Eliminating Benchwork For Large Mold Surfaces
EDM dielectric additives can subtract labor costs for mold makers by eliminating the need for secondary hand polishing.
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Plug-And-Play EDM
This ram EDM unit was designed with a number of EDM "reduction" trends in mind-reduced floorspace requirements, rate of electrode wear and operation learning curve.
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CAD/CAM Considerations For Micromilling
Milling with tools that are smaller than 100 microns in diameter presents equipment design and toolpath-generation challenges. This NC software maker offers strategies for creating safe, optimized tool paths for micromilling.
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Custom Tools For Critical Grooves
This tier-one auto supplier pooled metalworking talents to develop custom groove milling tools to deliver the accuracy and finish necessary for precision brake caliper grooves.
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Net-Shape Chucking Increases Hard Turning Accuracy
Heat treating a round, thin-wall part can distort the part's diameter. This lathe chuck grips an out-of-round part without forcing the workpiece perfectly round, which eliminates the spring-back effect after machining and removal from the chuck to enable a more accurate hard-turning operation.
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How Clean Is "Precision" Clean?
Specially engineered aqueous cleaning equipment is normally necessary to obtain the cleanliness levels automakers demand. There are general system attributes that a precision cleaning system should possess.
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Machining Composites By Conventional Means
Composites machining is dusty, messy and hard on tools. But this company accepts these difficulties, and machines the material using standard metalworking processes and equipment.
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Unattended Honing On A Vertical Chucker
An air-gage-monitored honing system added to an inverted vertical spindle chucking lathe allows unattended turning, boring and honing on one machine for greater process flexibility.
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How To Machine Pure Abrasion
Powder metal parts have become the darling of the auto industry, but they can be a demon for the shops that must machine the finishing touches. This shop has found that the keys to success machining such abrasive materials are proper cutting tool selection and continuous tool wear monitoring.
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Touch Probing with a Feather's Touch
Touch probing technology that requires no stylus deflection allows multisensor measurement systems to probe very small part features.
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