Contact
Sizing Up The Management Challenge
The demand for extremely small precision components is growing. A look at one company's thrust to meet this demand reveals what it takes to run a micro machining business.
Read More
Meeting Production Requirements For Medical
You might think that medical manufacturing always calls for complicated machine tools with lots of high-tech features for applications where no expense can be spared. This is not true. Medical manufacturing is often about economical production, where affordability, reliability and compactness are key values.
Read More
Revving Up The CMM
High speed, five-axis scanning promises to give throughput on coordinate measuring machines a big boost. Entire manufacturing strategies may be up for rethinking as a result.
Read More
Steering Clear Of Corner Concerns
Tool paths based on constant stepovers often get an end mill into trouble when it heads into a corner. Using the tool's angle of engagement as the constant avoids this difficulty.
Read MoreThe Continuous Flow Continuum
Workpieces that require operations that can be performed on a turning center and a machining center can often be produced more efficiently on a multi-process machine tool that combines machining center and turning center capabilities. By completing all of these operations in one setup, the time and labor associated with handling, waiting and change-over are greatly reduced or eliminated.
Read More
Sawing On A Machining Center
One of the unusual operations that the PBZ NT five-axis machining center can perform is sawing with a blade as much as 20 inches in diameter.
Read More
PC-Based Surface Grinders Make Their Mark
A more effective approach to grinding complex profiles enables this shop to help its U.S. customers compete globally.
Read More
The Multi-Process Machine Mindset
Installing a machine tool that combines milling, turning, boring and other processes changed this job shop’s outlook.
Read MorePrepped For Success
A few months ago, I wrote about the noticeable increase in startup machine shops (
Read MoreWe Used To Call It CIM
Our two cover stories this month look at ways to measure and control the overall performance of production equipment in a manufacturing plant. In each case, a computer network gathers and delivers information about events happening inside the machine tool.
Read More
A Lathe That Doesn't Turn The Workpiece
Rather than rotating the workpiece, an Escomatic lathe rotates a toolhead around material that is held stationary in a guide bushing. This configuration allows workpiece stock to be fed as bars or coils for long periods of uninterrupted operation.
Read More
