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Don't Overlook EDM Tapping
In many difficult hole making applications, the best way (and often the only way) to form internal threads is with electrical discharge machining.
Read MoreCoolant Science
These two words aren't often used together, at least not in a lot of shops and plants around the country. One reason is, scientists haven't often looked at metalworking fluids and coolants with an eye toward discovering the things about coolants that end-users need to know.
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Indexers Are Enabling
In this shop's production machining environment, the workforce must be extremely flexible and workholding must be extremely rigid.
Read MoreShould You Have A Product Line?
Many job shops, while providing the usual job shop services such as precision machining, also manufacture and sell a product. Often it's a product that the shop invented or developed in-house to solve a problem and now they are selling the device or tool to other shops.
Read MoreDown To The Micron, Up To The Stars
A souped-up CMM helps this shop machine to tolerances measured in single-digit microns. And the machine tool they're using is out of this world.
Read MoreWire EDM In The Extreme
Cutting metal with an energized strand of wire is still one of the most dynamic frontiers in metalworking, and this shop goes to extremes to keep up with the latest advances. It has even developed some of its own.
Read MoreBreaking The Electrode Bottleneck
This company uses high speed machining to slash the time it takes to make graphite electrodes for EDMing of molds and dies. From days to hours. Sounds like a simple, straight-forward formula for cutting costs and lead times, doesn't it?
Read MoreSeven Habits Of Highly Effective Shops
They're good at everything, great at something. They have a specialty that sets them apart from other shops but have no weaknesses in the operations or processes that support that specialty.
Read MoreA Shop's One-Setup Secret--It's In The Swivel
This young shop relies on its ability to complete difficult grinding jobs in a minimum of setups so that it can offer its customers an economical and efficient grinding solution. Grinders that can swivel the wheelhead under fully programmable control are the enabling technology.
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Read MoreSnapshot Of A Computer-Integrated Job Shop
Getting some basic software packages to "talk to each other" is the latest step in this job shop's steady march toward computer-integrated manufacturing -- at least for the moment.
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