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To Live Is By The Rules
One of the most important lessons we've learned from the quality assurrance revolution that has been taking place in manufacturing over the last ten years or so is the value of having good rules about quality procedures and following these rules conscientiously. Adopting ISO 9000 standards has certainly established these concepts as a way of life on the plant floor.
Read MoreInstalling That First EDM
This shop did it right. Their experiences provide useful guidelines for successfully installing a wire machine in a shop new to EDM.
Read MoreThe EDM Zone
Last month, we launched our new Web site, MMS Online, and with that launch we activated a feature called The EDM Zone. The EDM Zone groups all of our resources, databases, archives and special features related directly to electrical discharge machining and makes this material easy and quick to access.
Read MoreAn Eye Opener
The most experienced machinist in the shop, they said. He looked the veteran, too.
Read MoreSoftware Is The CNC
Imagine a computer numerical control (CNC) system set free of proprietary hardware. Two shops discuss their experiences with software-based machine controllers.
Read MoreComputer Network Control
Most people think of a CNC shop as a collection of machine tools with computers attached. Now we have to start thinking of a CNC shop as a network of computers with machine tools attached.
Read MoreReaching New Heights With Wire EDM
Just how high can you go when it comes to wirecutting tall workpieces? This shop has cut workpieces more than four feet high but workpieces 24 inches high are routine.
Read MoreEfficient, No; Effective, Yes
This past month, I served on a jury at the county court house. The whole trial-by-jury process was remarkable, but if our machine tools operated anything like what I saw, our shops and factories would be in a mess.
Read MoreIt Takes A Child
In a casual moment recently, I asked my son, who just turned seven, what he wants to be when he grows up. (I anticipated an answer like "A Ninja space warrior" or "A pro baseball player" or something mawkish: "Just like you, Daddy.
Read MoreIt's Within Your Grasp -- It Will Extend Your Reach
Though high speed machining means different things to different people, all of the diverse applications of this process involve performing operations fast enough to break into a new realm of possibilities.
Read MorePushbutton NC Programming
With numerical control (NC), shops learned how to automate the machining process. Now, with today's CAM software, they are learning how to automate the NC programming process.
Read MoreWizards We All Must Be
The merits of off-line versus shop-floor programming have been much discussed. Conventional wisdom says to program complex parts off-line and to program simpler parts on the shop floor.
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